Example: goal to lose 10 pounds — password might be lose10lbs! It’s a good, solid password too.

2) What’s your current system for being productive?
i just have a thing with todo list! i create them over and over sometimes this is not good! i need to put action sometimes! but over all i look at my goal and i see the steps that will help me achieve this goal and i work daily to it!

3) What habits have you created that help you in your daily life?
Well i want to be healthy I stop smoking over 6 months ago! :) I am able to focus better on what i really want out of life!
and i prep my self to get into shape! weekly

Three questions:

1) What are your top goals?
-Become an early raiser at 5:30AM each weekday (weekend at around 6:30AM or 7AM). I’ve been inspired by those blogs on how to accomplish this. This weekend I woke up at 8:30AM, and I was done with my MITs at the sametime I used to wake up (11AM). It felt great. I didn’t have those sunday evening regrets of “I should’ve done this and that during the weekend.”
-Work with the MITs. I’m still trying to figure out how the system is going to work for me.
-Make my notepad an extension from my body. I always carry a to do notepad everywhere for personal things. I’ve another one for work only that I keep at work. This approach works fantastic….simple but very powerful.
-Get back to physical shape. I’d like to get toned and just feel good.
-Feel like I am in control of my life again many ways: career, family, finance, physically. I guess this is going to be the result of just changing some bad habits. I’m very optimistic about it.
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2) What’s your current system for being productive?
-ZTD…notepad notepad notepad! Write everything down and DOING it. As simple as it sounds, it works.
-No multi-task and concentrate at one thing at the time.
-Writing index cards for evening routines
-Waking up early
-Downloaded the cool timer tool since I am in front of a computer all day.
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3) What habits have you created that help you in your daily life?
-Waking up early even during weekends.
-Writing everything down and doing it (don’t you see a pattern already?)
-Visiting this site for inspiration.
-Keeping things simple.
-Cool Timer helps me keep track of time and work in 30-40min bursts. Taking a break 10min breaks to cooldown.

I want to do it all but I’m holding myself back. I don’t want to feel burned out and then disappoint myself like in the past. I want to make sure all these efforts do not go to waste this time. Since I’ve been motivated to do things lately, my gf is also picking up my habits. Can’t wait try additional ZTD methods but first things first.

Current system:
I just started with GDT and the most important aspect for me is the “What’s the next action” rule. Since I have always plenty of new ideas for new projects, I used to let them go because I thought there would be so much to do and so little time.

Daily habits:
- I started a triathlon blog to be more bound to my training goals because I know every reader knows when I was lazy
- I stoppped leaving stuff all around the house and clean it only like once a week but started to clean it steadily – especially my workplace.
- Every new idea gets written down so that I know it won’t get lost.

BTW: This comments are the most useful I read in a long time!

@Greg: thanks for finally commenting, and for reading the blog all this time. I loved your comment, especially your habit of asking your kids and wife about their days. I do that too, and it really brings you home to those you love.

@Tina: great stuff, but my favorite was the 30 mins of Wii sports. :) I’m a fan of Flylady too!

@John: good luck with your book! Publishing a book has always been a dream of mine, and one that I will accomplish one day soon. And I love your exercise habit. You’ll have to tell us how you made that such a strong habit — I’m sure it would be enlightening.

@Kim: great stuff! Thanks for the nice comment. And except for the dissertation goal, your goals sound a lot like mine. :)

@Cat: You’ve got some excellent habits. My favorite goal of yours is “How will I make $Y today?” Classic.

@thendrick: Awesome goals! I’m also trying to be in the running for father and husband of the year, so look out! :)

Curent Goals:
- Be a better husband and father
- Start running again to get healthy/loose weight (starting tomorrow as a matter of fact!)
- Pay off debt by end of year
- Maximize time at work (using GTD of course)
- Obtain my CLP (Certified Linux Professional)

Current System:
My system has finally stabalized after several months of tweaking. Like others, I gather bits and pieces from numerous blogs to improve my system, usually from 43Folders or this site. Currently trying to get better at setting MITs for the day as well as big rocks for the week.

I am an OS X user, so my system is Mac centric:

- I use iGTD to maintain lists and projects
- Journaler for creative thinking and tracking
- Pocket Moleskin for capturing tasks and ideas while away from a computer

Daily habits:
- Up at 6:00am and intend to start running prior to sitting at my computer
- Plan MITs for the day
- Get inspiration reading productivity blogs
- Have a shut down period each night to reflect on day’s activities and think about what is coming up tomorrow.
- Asking my kids and wife how their days were…it’s amazing how important they feel when you are interested in what their day was like
- SImplify, simplify, simplify…I try and keep desk clean, desktop free of junk, and complicate file storage to a minimum. Taking a queue from here, I now have a small set of email folders: One that is cleared out each day for those longer then 2 minute emails, a second for any email I want to keep for the month, and a third that contains past archives for each month (similar to a blog.)