I made a few attempts at GTD but got stuck on something that is related to the authors point. It had to do with the literalism of the "next action." Most of wh

I made a few attempts at GTD but got stuck on something that is related to the authors point. It had to do with the literalism of the "next action." Most of what I experience as a problem in my work relates to getting overwhelmed by the scope of ongoing projects. I'm a music producer, a lot of the projects I do go over a period of weeks or months. I could never figure out the level of granularity for the next action. A common unit of my work is a song. Producing a song has many such levels. The highest/largest would be "produce song X. From there there are obvious chunks: pre-production, recording, mixing. Recording could be broken down to basic tracks and overdubs. Overdubs to vocals, horns, percussion. And so on. So on a given day, I might have planned to mix a song (could take a day). Is my next action "mix the song" or is it "boot the computer." The task is a whole series of steps that all must be completed. After a while I started to think that my problem wasn't getting started, it was getting finished! Mixing music is a difficult task that requires a lot of concentration, and I am usually very resource constrained. Since I have a lot of projects that I am working on, more than I can do, I'm already heavily prioritizing my time. After a while it just seemed like more trouble than it was worth to write out all of these next action, as they were usually obvious. What I experience as my problem is not having enough time to get a project done. I'm working efficiently, but as I come up against the resource constraint, which I always do, my subjective experience of stress goes up, and I start getting tired, the stress adding to my stress so to speak. This is when I'm in the thick of it working as hard as I can. I'm sure I am missing something with GTD, but I gave up on it pretty quickly. Though it did make me feel a lot more comfortable with deleting/trashing things I don't need. I'm probably just in the wrong business.