Comments on: Adapt Time Management Systems to Your Situation

By: Time management system

Time management system — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:29:33 +0000

I could’nt agree more with this post. A time management system, even if recommended by many people, is not panacea for your personal time management problems, if it simply does not fit into your personality or situation.
For some people, the use of to do list seems waste of time. For some others, full fleged system like GTD is a must. It all depends on personal choice and conditions.

By: i. Merey

i. Merey — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:02:52 +0000

To LJ–

Yeah, one hears a lot about what is “true” GTD, Autofocus…
But if your personalized version helps you more, isn’t that more important
than following the method to the T?

To LS–
I agree that there is a danger of slipping back into the old way
of doing things under the guise of making tweaks to a new
system. Ultimately though, the system needs to be flexible
to your needs. We should be bending the system to fit
to us, not the other way around.

By: LS

LS — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:22:23 +0000

I agree personalization is going to happen to any process. Each person’s situation and method is different. However, it seems that there is a danger in personalizing a process before one is proficient.

I work in change management. Sometimes, I find people personalize a process because they feel uncomfortable with the change a new process brings.

When does personal adaption become a way to avoid change?

By: LJ

LJ — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:05:59 +0000

I recently was blasted on my blog because my electronic interpretation of autofocus used priorities (which I used for sorting). But it was pointed out that it wasn’t “true” autofocus. Amazing.