Earlier this week I found all this great stuff about this book called Getting Things Done (Here is the author's website.) I think there's a software tie-in which is why all these internet geeks so excited about the system and improving their own personal productivity. And who wouldn't be? This book must be great.

I checked it out and found some site (sorry, can't find the link now, probably could if I was working the system) with a basic summary the principles of the book and basically what he's telling you to do is make lists, stay organized, toss worthless stuff, file stuff to do later and keep your "to do now" stuff in a pile. Only he uses different words: you "capture" the stuff you need to do and put it in "buckets."

I don't know what I was expecting, maybe a magic wand, because my whole life is about making lists and being organized but the things don't get done unless you actually do them. That's the part someone should write a book about. (I'm being a smart ass in case there are dimwits reading this who don't know the difference.)

If I learned anything it was that I should be writing books about being organized. I didn't know this was salable information. I thought it was common sense.