Of course, it wouldn’t be a colonic, because it refers to the colon; total hemispheric reboot, perhaps?

Anyway, funny that 43 folders mentioned the “Mindsweep”, because I am in the process of doing it today.

I think that one of the most important things GTD does is suggest the “Total Inbox” process, whereby you collect ALL “inputs” in SOME kind of system. Although creating a system (a physical system of boxes, folders and stuff; and, a virtual system of email etc) clearly involves time, energy and money (staplers, pens, boxes, and labelers aren’t cheap!) — it is totally and utterly worth it.

Here is my “GTD” System (mentioned in a previous post … updated 2 months later)

For me, I actually bought a physical inbox where I stuff all my mail, bills, things of interest, tickle items and so on.

For my email inbox, it all gets filtered through my gmail account.

From there, my system involves sorting inbox stuff into folders (I have 3 boxes), doing actionable items (2-5 minute thingies), and setting aside “Next Action/ Do it later type stuff”.

I tend to keep a watch on stuff like “due dates” in a virtual calendar, so I can keep everything on track wherever I go.
I use 30boxes now — although recently I was using gCal (google’s calendar) — and its pretty damn cool; it keeps track of a “to do list” as well.

Most importantly, I keep track of progress on ALL fronts through netvibes.
Netvibes allows me to keep track of
1)calendar through an RSS
2)News, through RSS
3)Notes, through “web notes”
4) Project data through “notes” and “to-do” lists

I think the “trick” if there is one, is to continue to carry on with this system.
Any behavioural change is difficult to do if its not kept on with … exercise, quiting of smoking etc etc.

Eternal and damnable procrastination and disorganization is surely one of them … and something that I am struggling with / learning to deal with.