Hello David,
I was in the middle of reading and applying your book when I came home one day and found it like this.
Yep my dog ate it on a day when he was bored because I was so busy I didn’t get him out for a walk. Did I mention that I was in the middle of applying your recommendations? Well, I am keeping the book because I can still read most of it and it is a reminder that I must complete the process I started so I will not lose any more books.
Thanks, Joy
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Joy,
If your dog starts getting more bones buried, odors smelled, and books eaten, let me know. (Most people haven’t absorbed as much GTD as he obviously had!)
Thanks for sharing!
David
Hilarious!!!
I was thinking when I saw this in twitter that it might be an article on overcoming excuses we are using to avoid getting back to our systems. Would love any thoughts for those of us whose dog ate our book….when we don’t actually have a dog.
Hi Lisa,
Find what’s motivating for you about doing GTD. What will it do for you personally? Professionally? How will your life be better?
Find the outcomes that give you that spark of inspiration. It may not be in the process, but in the result (e.g. most people don’t love walking on a treadmill, but love how they feel when they are walking out of the gym.)
It can also help to have some support and structure. Go through the Getting Started & Refresher series on GTDConnect.com. Hang around the GTD Forums (http://www.davidco.com/forum/) to chat with others doing GTD. Go to a seminar (http://www.davidco.com/seminars/seminar_mastering_workflow.php). Read the book again. Lots of ways to get on the wagon. The trick is to find what rings your bell.
Cheers,
Kelly
Our dog is smart enough not to mess with my books, but our bengal cat did relieve himself on my new copy of Making It All Work the week it had been released.
I think he was telling me that in organization was antithetical to his nature.
What a great post, David!
That’s what I call digesting the material. 🙂
Derek
Not impressed. My dog once ated “The Antichrist” by Nietzsche. xD
This is super, I needed a good laugh.
Hah, and I guess the dog shows people how to use GTD to tackle things much bigger than themselves, since that “stick” in his mouth, doesn’t look quite small.
… really the next stage of GTD evolution! in hopes of generating some creative ideas …
Funnily, I was reading this in Google Reader, and just under the entries for the GTD blog, was another blog called “Feeding the Black Dog” – your dog’s not black is it, Lisa?
I had the exact same thing happen to me. I ultimately went out and bought myself another copy.
My great dane mangled my hard-back copy of Angela Davis’ “Women, Race, and Class” and then shredded all the cushions and pillows in the living room.