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GSD

January 7th, 2008 by Kenric

No it doesn’t stand for German Sheperd Dog.  It stands for Get Shit Done.  When I used to work in the corporate world I used to use the term GSD alot.  It basically meant to just do it now instead of later.  I couldn’t stand how we would sit in meetings and talk about something that needed to be done when we could have just done it during the meeting.

Lately, I’ve realized that I have become one of those do it later people.  I have been meaning to change my voicemail greeting on my ebiz message.  I put it down as something to do on Monday, but as I was writing it down on a notepad I decided to just get it done.  There are so many little things like that that we can just do at the moment we think about them.  I need to get back into the habit of just doing it.

(one hour has passed since I wrote the top portion of this post)

What happened?  Well while writing this post a bunch of things popped into my head that I’ve been putting off.  I had two choices, do them now or finish this post and do them after.  It’s ironic because I was talking about getting things done and here I am not finishing this post.  However, I had to decide which was more important to complete.  This unfinished post could wait since it wasn’t being posted until tomorrow.  So I finished a bunch of stuff that I was going to put off until tomorrow instead.  The net result is that once I finish this post my list of things to do tomorrow is empty now.

How many times have you looked at a bill and thought, I have to remember to pay that tomorrow?  Why can’t you just do it at that moment?  I’m sure you have 2 minutes to spare.  What are the chances that you’ll forget to pay it tomorrow if you don’t write it down?  Isn’t writing it down almost as much work as writing a check and addressing an envelope?

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