Those times...

You know those times when you want to do something, like water the plants or eat a cupcake, some fellow comes along and advises you to do that exact same thing. Bam! You no longer want to do it anymore.

You just don't want to do that thing now because then that person will feel as though you did it BECAUSE he told you to. It's as if that person thinks we have no self capacity to think and act. Pretty annoying it becomes especially when it happens more than 3 times in an hour.

Early task review

It's hard to be productive people. One can easily get lost in the onslaught on tasks to do and end up doing too much or too less. And most of us do.

I've realized that the key to successful productivity in balance. That is properly distributing ones tasks through out the day.

The most important time is the morning or just after one wakes up. Atleast for me, I tend to to be very sleepy and very off course early in the day but I gain momentum as the day progresses. My productive time is towards the end. I used to mange my tasks at the end of the day and update them at the end. But off late I've begun doing that first thing in the day. The review cycle in GTD. This gives me something to accomplish and keep in my mind as the day passes. And I make a sort of mini day tasks list and then make another 3 level priority list which contains the 3 next actions to do in order assuming that everything is going smoothly. That way I can reduce the load on having to decide what to do, which takes a lot of time for me considering I have 150+ next actions.

For non GTDers, I suggest
GTD on wikipedia
GTD on wikisummaries