Turbo Catch Up

I used to be a productivity junkie, a GTDer. I spent hours each week reorganizing to-do lists, reprioritizing task lists, and reading productivity bloggers' latest secret weapons. I had an epiphany when I started (your mind is for idea generation, not for idea storage) and an epiphany when I largely purged the lifestyle (feel, don't think, about what you should do at any given moment).

The fastest way to shrink one's task list is to cross items off without completing them first. Sounds shortsighted, but it works well. Try it... feel the peace that flows through you as you count the tasks you no longer have to pay mind or time toward. "Done" with no effort... it's bliss.

One area that's nearly impossible to streamline is my social life. I like one-on-one interaction, staying in touch, and photojournalizing the madness that goes down in the day-to-day (night-to-night) of my network. Even something as simple as editing my photos, pulling 'em off the digicam and pushin 'em onto the web is something I slack on much more often than not. Do I crop? Caption? Contextualize via blog? Is anyone paying attention... is it even worth it?

Could be... but I've done that most of that. It would take me another hour to even list the albums I've uploaded since I posted last. If I waited for that to happen... it wouldn't. The backlog would grow and I'd fall further beind. In the interest of mutual benefit, I should go with the flow, shut up, and post. The only thing left to do now is to broadcast the link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/mattawalker

Edited, cropped, and (for the most part) captioned. A visual document of what I've been up to for the past six months. Camping, hiking, waterfalling, raving, dancing, surfing, biking, bowling, partying, drumming, tide pooling, cup flipping, happy houring, beer tasting, and smiling.

Thanks for paying attention :) Hopefully you'll hear from me again soon, but no guarantees.