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English translation will follow.
Yesterday-evening I returned from a trip to the Somme’s battlefields. Here, during WW1, so many British men and boys died in a rather useless attack that should have been a turning-point in this war. It was a very impressive trip. Not only because you can see the old battle-fronts by the shattered graveyards, but also because you can imagine rather well how the carnage here took place. A simple walk in a wood or on the fields, brought up ammunition and a large Obus. The nice weather (not as ‘heavenly’ as on July, 1st 1916) and the whistling birds nonewithstanding made the atmosphere daunting. Here Lord Kitchener’s Army found it’s doom. Two years in the making, 10 minutes in the destroying. Makes you humble… Look at the undeveloped photo’s at Flickr.
Damon Hill (ex-racing driver) still makes his moves. Here he is testing out the new Mercedes-Benz SL. Please note the expressions on the reporter’s face. Stay tuned until the end!
I’ve changed my language plugin. Consequence is, that the current content is messed up. Will tidy things up…
translation will follow this weekend. Please see ‘Nederlands’ for first impression.
I must admit: my GTD routine was a bit low the last month. In fact that is rather strange. Because last month was rather busy. You would say that a strict GTD-routine should have helped to overcome such a periode. But this is proof for me, that my intentions with GTD were just that: intentions (the best of them!) The routine didn’t sink in deep enough to make it second nature. And this is what Ben Tiggelaar is writing/talking/ranting about in his latest publications: to actually change one’s behaviour a lot of very consious and hard work need to be done. After that is all is simple… Because you drilled yourself in a way that the new behaviour became second nature.
Well, my earlier GTD-efforts learned me a lot however. Lessons I can apply now I’m getting back on the train again. The main reason for this – apart from a nagging frustration because I knew things weren’t on track – was the introduction to ThinkingRock (www.thinkingrock.com.au). An Australian (JAVA)applications that runs on my Mac as well as on my PC. It follows the GTD-workflow rather strict and helps me in gathering all things ”IN” in a better, more natural way.
Because this I found to be the hardest in learning and developing GTD-techniques: how to get to a solid, unique and always and everywhere working “INBOX”? How did you fellow GTD-ers manage that?
