I find GTD extremely attractive, but any attempt to implement it in my life (and I've tried a few times), has been an abject failure. A few things I've found he

I find GTD extremely attractive, but any attempt to implement it in my life (and I've tried a few times), has been an abject failure. A few things I've found helpful, though, to minimizing time-wasting generally are: 1) Stop playing video games, or if you can't bear the thought, add some "friction" to make it harder to do without thinking (in my case, I have a few favorite Windows games, but since I have a MacBook, I need to open a VM to play the game. That additional requirement forces me to think whether I really have the time to do it. 2) Do repetitive tasks in groups (sort of obvious). and 3) (I've had some success with this, but it's extremely hard to stick to) Don't leave your email client open unless you absolutely have to- continually interrupting the current task to see the most recent ad from Amazon, or some email forward, is a huge time sink. Surprisingly few emails are actually urgent.