I struggle with ADD myself, and part of the reason I have found this site and the GTD method is on a quest to improve my ability to "Get Things Done". I have changed jobs, I am working at home now. This opens up a can of worms unmatched before.

While I do take medication, it keeps me sitting still and less distracted than I typically am. I find, and found this when I worked places too, that putting on headphones and music I have heard a billion times (if its new, I tend to pay attention to it), so the radio doesn't work as well as a playlist on my iPod with the same 30 songs on it, over and over and over.

I am finding more and more that when I realize I am not focusing and not being productive, my headphones aren't on. I turn them on, and away I go. This isn't 100% the case, but more often than not.

While I have always maintained lists in some capacity, I am new to GTD. It was great for a week, then I start to drift away from it. Its in front of me and I am building it correctly with next actions and what not, but I find that I get side tracked on random things, not on the list, or that are on the list, that are not priority. I can't always put things off until a proper time, like I should be able too. For example, I've been meaning to clean up my iPhoto Library and I got carried away doing that for several hours and then I moved onto other organization, duplicate finding tasks on my "catch all" HD. This means, I must make up my time this weekend, that I lost during the week, being productive, but not productive in a work sense.

My new method and I just implemented it, have not given it a whirl, is blocking access to my "regular" internet sites I tend to pull up when I get distracted. Sometimes, I really do this unknowingly, until its too late and 3 rabbit trails later, I "wake up" and think... oh yea, back to work. As such, I have taken my hit list, setup a rule on my firewall to block access during my "work day" except for 3 different periods. I can't block all sites but a few, because I need access to Google and various random sites doing searches on what I am working on. But, I'm less prone to get side tracked while working on a specific task and accessing the web related to it, vs unrelated tasks that really don't matter.

I have also blocked off the same time periods to address incoming emails, and filter through my unread messages, and for the most part, that is working good, I just need to stay to the "plan" as much as possible, which is 99% of my issue.

I also find, that despite David Allen, making a mole hill out of a mountain by breaking down first actions and next actions... mountains are still mountains. Even if I can break it down to 100 steps, I know 99 steps are waiting behind that first one. So, once again, a mental issue.

I hope to figure this all out soon. I believe I could be about 500% more productive (or more) if I can "keep" a system.

The ThinkingRock software has been the best todo software I have used. The others kept me searching for something better, and the search ended with it.

Scott