A couple of major themes in my approach.  Once of which I am sharing today. These are aided by some reading I have done in the GTD  process and my own experiences on what seems to work for myself.  And with each of these themes i used various tools to help me maintain the balance in my life.

Get things off of your mind.   

This is the most important, albeit simple piece of knowledge I have learned in the past couple of years.   I used to always have a dreadful list that was always running through my mind of all the things that I needed to accomplish, mainly work related.   They would interrupt my family time causing me stress at just at the time that I am trying to reduce my stress.   So the quicker I can get things into a list or email that I know I will work later, the better off I am.

jott has been a incredibly usefully tool for me. It is hard to count how many times I have been sitting at one of my son’s baseball games and thought of something (usually something quite small but important) that I needed to complete at work.   Before I got my stuff together I would hope the thought would come up again when I was sitting in front of my computer, now I hit speed dial 2 on my phone, and say “myself” and then the task I need to do, in the morning I have an email telling me exactly what to do.   I like the simplicity of not having to carry around a note book and remembering to check it, my email is the one thing that always get plenty of attention when I get to work.   This frees me up to focus on the Home Life tasks that are important to me.