Get Everything Done

Having enjoyed the personality type thread, I believe it might be interesting to survey what profession, occupation, trade, calling, métier, users of the AF system are involved in. I'll start.
Television Writer/Producer-currently in writing phase. Using AF for work and personal.

Technical writer for a government contractor. This is my work list.

On the side (and feeding my second list), getting a master's in information science (projects, readings, papers, etc), serving on a neighborhood ass'n board, serving as program chair for an academic organization, etc. Am also contemplating doctoral programs, so this is a separate project with lots of tasks.

Psychiatrist/psychotherapist. That's part time. And I'm momma and wife the rest of the time. Using AF for both.

I'm an Occupational Therapist 'working for the government', specialising in Equipment and Major Adaptations. I was using DIT to a good effect at work and home but must admit that AF is starting to look promising for me.

I am a professor of microbiology at a major research univerity in the USA. I am finding AF to be an outstanding system!

Best regards,
-David

I work at home in a little farm.

Support manager (read: "chief go-fer") for a department store.

I own a small consulting firm.

I am a fiction writer. Also teach in a grad writing program at a major university. Working on a novel.

Occupational Safety Specialist at a hospital in Germany, using AF for work and home.

Print journalist, specialising in agriculture and environmental issues.

I'm an account planner in an advertising agency. (Our department researches, creates, implements and reviews the strategy for a product or brand, we don't actually write the ads).

I tend not to procrastinate so much at work as I have a supportive team, although there are lots of lastminute panics about presentations.

But my home life is utter chaos, and my postgraduate degree is a decade behind its original deadline.

I am using AF in line with some of Mark's other techniques from GED and MYDCT - I found DIT great in theory, but found it hard to implement as it makes too many demands of really hardened procrastinators like myself. My favourite tips of his are the timer technique, 'I'll just get the file out" and halving, all of which work brilliantly with the 'little and often' of AF.

The biggest revelation of AF for me has been the fact that you get to cross off things you haven't actually 'done' yet - it's totally okay to have just started on a task. For a person who has previously managed to get almost nothing crossed off her 'to do' list before, it's a wonderful feeling.

I have made a few amendments to AF. I started using the post-it note mini-lists (to buy; to do in town; urgent today) almost immediately, even before it was suggested on this forum. I also use black pen to write the tasks, and cross them out when completed in black pen. If they're still a work in progress, I cross them out in red pen, and note how long I spent on a particular task on that occasion in the margin. If I beat a previous best ever, I reward myself with a treat - a coffee or a magazine. I find this acts as a great motivator as there are still some tasks on my list I'm resisting.

I haven't yet dismissed any tasks, and I tend not to write down anything I do automatically, such as empty the dishwasher or load the washing machine.

Sorry, in my very long (and off-topic!) post, I didn't say that the mini-lists are culled from the AF list - they aren't totally separate lists.

This is an important point as you have to let the 'air' of AF get to everything on your 'to do' list before you action any of it.

Eg I have "buy new wardrobe for spare bedroom" on the AF list, but it doesn't appear on the shopping mini-list as my brain has already acknowledged it isn't as important as milk, eggs and printer paper.

Previous to AF I would have spent hours of my day searching online for the perfect spare-room wardrobe as this would have been so much more fun than heading to Sainsbury's...

Financial trader working from home

I'm a lawyer for a local authority, specialising in planning and licensing. Liking the system but struggling with the fact that I always have competing deadlines - the courts, the Planning Inspectorate, client departments - so often it's not a case of what stands out on the list, but who is screaming the loudest.

Picture Framer.
Running my own small business.
AF Has been working great for me.

Part-time Vicar. And Mum. Struggling still to get AF to work for me. Mainly because I hardly ever to seem to have much 'processing' time either at home or at work. And I don't get round to looking at the lists! I'm a chronic procrastinator and 'butterfly mind' ENFP on Myers Briggs. But I've enjoyed incorporating bits of Mark's wisdom over the years since I first read 'Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play'.

Front line emergency services; hence I have one page for work and 12 active pages (x29 lines) for home! I'm getting excited because I'm close to making a couple of pages inactive with no dismissals :)

I work managing real estate projects and real estate investments for a money management firm.

Academic librarian

Project Risk Contract Analyst (part time) - Mom, Wife and Elderly carer full time! Using AF for all.

Senior lecturer in computing (3 days/week) and just for some contrast, I childcare three children aged 7, 2 and 1 for another 1 or 2 days/week. Like Jane, above, I also have had problems getting AF to work due to little processing time available currently. But I love the fact that all my tasks are there, waiting for when I DO have more spare time.

Elementary school teacher, Graduate Student (to become a school librarian), husband and father. Oh, and I have ADD. Whew!

AF is working well for me so far.

Doctor,Father,Husband,son,brother and friend

Not in that order necessarily!

Delighted with AF

Previously had my own business as a reinsurance consultant, business adviser, nearly completed Life Coaching training a couple of years ago (but procrastinated!) and now carer for elderly parents. Probably don't need to say what I think of AF :-)

Self employed in the IT field - working as a consultant and developing my own projects. I'm also a postgraduate student and a family household manager. I'm finding AF helps me keep it all in focus!

IT Director for a newspapers

Philosophy professor. No teaching or admin work at my institution in January – just research (my favourite) – so I've yet to try out Autofocus in the full swing of the semester. But it's working extremely well for me so far, and I've often struggled with periods – summers, January in my current job, research leaves – which have little or no externally imposed structure (that is, research-only periods – despite the fact that research is what I care about the most), and Autofocus has definitely been an enormous help with that.

I'm also using Autofocus for the rest of life, too, and I suspect I'm feeling less stressed than I would be otherwise about the fact that my wife and I are expecting our first child in May. (No stress might be a bit of a tall order for that one....)

I love seeing the vast array of occupations here! I'm a professional organizer--I help people create order in their homes. I've recommended AF to clients and will be interested to see how it works for them.

Even though I'd consider both this and the Myers-Briggs-type question a tad too intrusive, I'll give some kind of answer here.

Crossover law/business administration/taxation/humanities background, employed in the field of specialist journalism (law/taxes/business administration, plus some computing), still some self-employed projects (though not nearly progressing enough lately).

Another IT person here .. more specifically, a Software Test Engineer for a gaming machine company

Forester

Business process and IT consultant to the retail industry.

Trainer for Software Development
Trying AF for Work and Home with some success. But I still manage to procrastinate some. :-)

Vicar (curate, technically)

Self employed 59 year old web designer and IT professional from Germany and a really big procrastinator.
Trying AF for work.

I am a college adviser and extreme procrastinator. AF is working great for me and is very useful at home which has been in chaos. I am also starting an online web business so AF is invaluable with that as well.

It has been very effective and really life changing to be so productive and it seems to work well with my ADD personality.

Thank you again, Marc.

Vice President of Finance and I am really enjoying the results of AF.

Missionary: Leadership Development

Composer and options trader

Business Manager/COO in banking

Engineer, using for personal and work all on one list.
I get very resistant to todo lists and I love making complicated GTD systems but then I end up avoiding them.
AF is working for me though!

VP of Finance & Operations + own my own small business doing both event planning and helping other small businesses & entrepreneurs with their business management. Also single mom to 2 teenagers. It's a fast dance. So far, really liking AF.

Full-time: run a small business.
Part-time: teach a university course.

I'm currently a Librarian, though was journalist by trade - trying to complete a novel when I can marry the time and energy. I also write articles/features for the department's magazine and intranet.

I'm a PA and it's working for me. :o)

Writer (screenplays and some fiction) and teacher (University level).

I run a small business digitising rare books and manuscripts

Speech Language Pathologist/Early Intervention Specialist (work with infants, toddlers and their families mostly in their homes so spend a lot of time in and out of my car, precious little desk time)

I am a small business consultant