Getting Organized with Areas of Responsibility


It's 12:35 PM on Friday and I am shifting into a Getting Things Done blog management session. I expect to stay in this session until about 5 PM this evening. My goal for this session is to begin the process of reorganizing my blog so that it performs better for me and my readers as a Getting Things Done (GTD) organizer. In order to accomplish this, I will need to customize the GTD Horizons of Focus to fit my situation. The standard GTD Horizons of Focus model has five horizons in addition to the ground. This is a bit more altitude than I can handle, at least at this stage. Back in 2006, Michael Sampson came up with an alternative visualization:


I really like Sampson's visualization, but I cannot handle goals just yet. What I think maybe I can handle is the following five horizons: Next Actions, Projects, Areas of Responsibility, Vision, and Mission.  

How can I apply these five horizons to the structure of my blog? Well, here is what I am thinking:
  • Blog Title = Mission
  • Blog Description = Vision
  • Blog Pages = Areas of Responsibility
  • Blog Labels = Projects
  • Blog Posts = Next Actions
Alright, now I have five customized horizons of focus as a new framework for my blogging. I am not going to focus on my blog title, description, labels, or posts in today's session. I am only going to focus on my blog pages - my areas of responsibility.

I currently have two blog pages: "My Church" and "For My Fellow Schizomystics." Is "My Church" one of my Areas of Responsibility, or is it all of my Areas of Responsibility put together? I think, after reading back over the page, that the text captures too many different Areas of Responsibility. Nor am I satisfied with "For My Fellow Schizomystics" as the introduction to a single Area of Responsibility. These two pages served their purpose back in April of 2025 when I first launched this blog. Now I need to deepen my life workflow with a new set of pages. What should I do with my two old pages? I have just pasted them into posts, backdated to the day in April that I initially published them.

Well, it's closing in on 5 PM. How should I wrap this session up? I guess my next step is to fix a bite of dinner, get some prayer time in on the meditation cushion, and then decide whether I am going to blog my way through this week's Shabbat. Otherwise, I will next post again on Sunday.

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