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This weekend Raewyn and I are off to New Zeal which is a conference that starts in four hours (Friday 7pm) and goes through with nine sessions and two seminar slots to finish at 2.30pm on Sunday afternoon.

Then we have visitors for dinner and, praise God, we have Monday off (Its our regular day off).  Then next week we’re tied up from lunchtime on Wednesday until late Friday with a course at the Booth College of Mission.

And here’s the really great feeling.  I don’t feel like I’m drowning or that I’m likely to miss something important over this time!

Having implemented eProductivity for Lotus Notes a few weeks ago and thanks to its simplicity and integrated approach to GTD, I’ve been on top of things like never before.

I’m paying a lot more attention to things that are important.

In the past, when I always seemed rushed off my feet with the urgent little things, I would fly by the seat of my pants when it came to meetings.  This meant I was not preparing properly and this meant that:

1. Meetings were not achieving anything (in fact, we often didn’t even have a real purpose or agenda);
2. I was wasting people’s time (meetings would be put off until another time, or drift along interminably); and most importantly
3. I was effectively disrespecting those who I were requiring to be at the meeting.

I have now ensured that I’m improving my leadership skills by making that a priority.

I’m delegating better

And by this I mean I’m neither holding things too tight, nor am I “dumping” stuff.  Both things I was prone to when I didn’t take the time to decide properly what should be delegated and how it should be delegated.

I’m resting more

Its interesting that by being more productive you can rest better.  Note that this doesn’t necessarily mean more (though I can see how that will happen too), but it does mean that with your brain empty, (see my previous post), when I sit down and rest, I’m not continually worrying about stuff.  A great blessing.  In fact, I’ve got my wife working towards GTD (not eProductivity as she loves her paper diary and to do list) and she was saying how much better she’s been sleeping lately!

So if you haven’t already done so, get a copy of Getting Things Done by David Allen and read it with expectation.  Also, if you’re a Lotus Notes user, I can’t recommend eProductivity by Eric Mack enough.  It’ll blow your socks off.

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