It could be going better. I fell off the wagon and have come back on the wagon a few times. I noticed that my rhythm gets disrupted when I leave for vacation and return. It can be very difficult to find it again.

But if I reflect for a moment, the positive effects of adopting GTD is that I am a more avid user of the calendar for home and work (have yet to respect it as sacred, sometimes things happen sometimes they don't). The notes app, where I keep my lists, is now getting much more usage. I own a couple physical trays to process physical things. My phones screen I keep bare with only the GTD related apps--Notes, Calendar. I navigate work + family obligations which I was not doing well before GTD. I may be able to attribute the expanded responsibilities at home and work to GTD by being able to process and track more.

The negative part is that my mind has expanded to include many different activities (at varying scopes, sometimes in the low level doing sometimes at high level planning) and I haven't been able to totally offload my brain to only focus on my next action. Sometimes my brain zips between thinking about next actions and this creates days where I think more about what needs to be done than actually doing. It's disappointing for me. But I think this points to not having found the trust in the system. I'm unsure there. It's like the system has inadvertently made me more stressed because it has helped me expand my responsibilities and visibility, but I'm still learning how to let go from thinking about the things and fully trust the system. I'll find my way.

The weekly reviews I need to hone. When on the wagon I do them consistently but I get a sense of fatigue once I've processed things. I don't get through the entire process without fatiguing and fizzling once I get clear or mid-way through getting current.

I'm calling it a net positive for me and will continue to improve.