GotDone time (3rd paragraph for the inpatient)

I’ve fully adopted the Emergent Task Planner from David Seah. My only quadrille with it is that it’s designed for lazy Americans that work from 9 to 5, us slaves that work from 9 to 6 have this big blank box right at 5pm clamping scheduling at that time slot. But I can live with that, since after 3pm I just simulate work anyway, it’s no biggie. The latest version has a way to attribute tasks into those boxes two boxes (lunch and 5pm), but the witty comment’s on the task lister put me off. (I really don’t consider doing 4 tasks a day something to brag about) but that’s really because the way we see schedules is personal and of course this possibly fit’s David’s life perfectly. no irony there, just different line’s of work, or different system as to breaking a big task down.
So ETP has change my life for the better and kudos for the author for the vision to pull it off.

I’ve been procrastinating like a moron. I’m out of character and I feel cranky about it. There’s a lot of stuff that’s got to change, I especially feel that moving to a roomier house will make me more productive. being crowded and having too much unwanted stimuli around me breaks my concentration by it’s very roots. So a private study is a must have for me right now.
Now I should clear out that what some people might consider procrastination is not that at all for me. My concept of procrastination is really leaving my brain unengaged, just rolling around at drift in drone fashion. I can have a million things to do and projects to finish, but I decide it’s time to get some work done on that extension I’ve been working for thunderbird. I might not be doing what I should be doing, but I’m developing something and learning java at the same time, so to me that clearly does not count as “procrastination”. Parked brain: yes! Consuming brain: no.
(by the way, the extension is dead-on-the-water since I can’t really find a reason to work on a platform I’m not using)

So I created a new google calendar called “GotDone”, it is inventively named as it will list all the things I got done/learned during my “non-commitment” time – I really don’t differentiate a business meeting from a music concert, both are things I must attend (either because I’m obligated or because I already own tickets) so it all goes into the same calendar or tagged with the same color – so now I have a new color (a nice faded orange) that keeps track of how I used my non-commitment time. not only a clear way to flag useless time but also something to make me feel even worst.

(by the way, who thinks google will eventually start charging for little things that we are hooked on like sms notifications and such?)