It's eleven o'clock at night. I'm in a tent ten miles out of Malmesbury. I should not be thinking about this.
Work can wait until Monday; wedding planning can wait a week. Lasertrap can wait forever, if it has to. I certainly don't have to enumerate every little thing I have to do between now and Christmas, but that's what I'm doing.
The hippies I'm hanging out with are telling me to chill out: Funny. I thought I was.
A little introspection reveals what's going on: I no longer trust that everything I need to do is captured somewhere externally, and that I will get to it at the appropriate time. My phone is flat - power's hard to find at WOMAD - and I can neither read my GTD lists, to reassure myself that they exist, nor write to them. So I'm storing things in my head.
But that's not the only problem. Now managing several projects, both business and personal, my lists have become more detailed and I'm having to look ahead multiple actions. I used to get away with avoiding grouping tasks by project, but that's no longer the case.
And instead of fixing the system, I've stopped using it. The thing with GTD is that 100% coverage is an order of magnitude better than 99% coverage - and right now, I'm closer to 50%.
I'll buy some phone batteries. In the meantime, I need to reboot my GTD system: do a full sweep, collect all unclosed loops, take them to next actions, store them and forget them.
I'll put that on the todo list in my head.