Office perfection; ah! - bliss.

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[Susanne Nyrop]

My personal space. I work from home so that's my best place to be. There are three book shelves with only those books that I find are relevant for my professional life, the rest are stored in our big room downstairs. My binders are neatly organized but I only use the later ones, the rest will have only sort of historical value to me, for the time being, but now and then an artcile that was flied long ago cound be of good inspiration.

I know I have collected too many piles of print out articles and internet notes, mixed a bit too messy with personal mind maps and unfinished odds and ends. But at least I'm so proud of my multiple tables - two of them are on wheels, and one is foldable and can be stored underneath my big desk, that is very flexible!

I have room for two computers (one of which I only keep because I often use the screen as a secondary one for my laptop, a printer and my radio and CD player. And ecah time I have a new major task to finish, I can clean up every clutter on these tables, they're almost empty once a week when we do our traditional, basic house cleaning. And, to prepare myself for tomorrow's work, I find the most important material, look through it and place it in stacks on the side table. Together with coloured paper for special purposes and those ubiquitous yellow stickers, and my digital iCalendar with notes, URLs and emails - these are my arms for getting things done, little by little...

That's the actual situation

[Rosa]

Aloha kaua e MWA3P hui,

Another note on those Expanding Pendaflex Files:
The 3rd kind offered is the A-Z File, and this is great to get if you are inbetween your present work space set-up and the nirvana that Allen encourages us to achieve in a weekend's "block of time to initialize this process" (Setting Aside the Time, paperback page 87). Read One Alpha System on page 98 and you'll immediately understand what I mean.

When I went to Office Max for my first shopping trip I bought all 3 types just in a "what the heck, I might need it" kind of moment, and turns out that A-Z reference file got filled up the fastest in my transition.

I really resisted dumping all my open loops in one inbox at first, unless I had done something with them, and the A-Z organizer has been a godsend for me when I start to process.

There are so many head-nodding, "yep, been there" moments in the reading of Allen's book, that I encourage you to do whatever you can right away so you start getting some immediate results: Keep your excitement about the project alive. Don't wait for that magic purging weekend to start. What was it Goethe said?

ABOUT TAKING ACTION:
Lose this day loitering, 'Twill be the same story Tomorrow -- and the next more dilatory. Then indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting overdays! Are you earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or dream you can - begin it! Courage has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage, and the mind grows heated. Begin it, and the work will be completed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Wise, wise words.

[Dave]

Rosemary had an office in our home in Cleveland. She kept it exclusivly for home use, never bringing work home from the bank. She used a roll top desk.

Now in Tampa, she is working from home. As you cannot get even a laptop on the roll top, we got another desk for her. Now she keeps all homestuff on the roll top and work stuff on the other.

I began using GTD in the Fall of 03. I jumped in hook line and sinker, buying the necessary folders and labeling guns. I petered out in the Spring of 04 when I changed jobs.

Although I haven't had the opportunity to participate here in the last month or so, I am excited that Rosa is doing this.