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Guest Post by Tejas Patel

GTD – Getting Things Done. I have been following GTD wagon for quite some time now and I have unknowingly dropped off the wagon many times. Upon thinking the main reason, it is the because I was not religious and disciplined about getting weekly review done. I am very much self motivated these days when it comes to weekly GTD review.

Although I have read David Allen’s "Getting Things Done" book once and understand the underlying concept, I have modified my GTD system to suit me and above all to make me productive while enjoying the process of GTD. But I follow the principles of which weekly review is one. I get juiced up and I get an enjoyment in doing my reviews which I schedule normally on a weekend. The weekly review leaves me with a clear head and with a feeling of satisfaction and calmness. GTD process is reviewed here .

I can break down the ‘Joy’ factor into following three factors:

1. Keeping me on track with my projects: – Without weekly reviews, I would not be religiously reviewing my projects every week. With reviews, I know what I have done so far and what I need to do next to get it moving in the right direction. I schedule the next appropriate action. I work of multiple projects simultaneously and what I do is with weekly review, I decide which projects I will be focusing on coming week and schedule things where applicable and put some dates in the Calendar.
2. Feeling of Accomplishment: – Being ambitious about getting the work done, it gives me a feeling of accomplishment every week when I see all the tasks I have completed (during the week) which are taking me closer to the project completion.This normally gives me a extra boost to get more things completed in the coming week and to improve on my ways of getting the tasks completed.
3. Overview of what’s coming next week: – While I am setting up the tasks for my projects for the coming week, I also put entries in my Calendar and/or in my RTM project list of dates when I am going to work on the task. This gives me a direction and sets up my work load. Upon finishing the review process, I know exactly what all tasks I am going to work on in the coming week and what needs to be done.

So knowing that my projects are on track or knowing what I can do to get them on track and having a clarity about my next week gives me a clear direction. For me ‘Clear Expectations’ + ‘Execution’ = ‘Awesome Results’. And getting closer to those ‘Awesome Results’ with a much more clear picture of the end gives me a great joy. Because of weekly review, I can schedule things that are more important to me rather than just working on most urgent tasks.

What joy do you get out of your GTD review?
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Tejas Patel is an information addict and works as a Training consultant in Melbourne, Australia. GTD follower and a avid social network participant and can be found on his blog at http://www.itejas.com or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/tejaaa

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