The Power of “Someday”

photo credit: David Masters

One of the things David Allen advises in “Getting Things Done” is to have a folder (both physical and virtual, in your Email) for “Someday.” This folder is for anything that you would like to do sometime in the future, but without a definite timetable except … someday. It could be anything, from books you’d like to read, to places you’d like to visit, to projects you’d like to undertake. I never really saw the value of this folder until recently.

Even though I had decided to focus my home business efforts based on my back-of-the-church-flyer plan, I found myself still getting distracted by the many – and tempting – offers of various Internet marketers and copywriting gurus. I had exerted a lot of willpower to unsubscribe from many lists I had joined, but still I was getting quite a few a day. On the other hand, I found these useful to me as I wrote marketing copy for my own clients, as they provided me a swipe file for what’s effective in terms of E-mail marketing, squeeze pages, and sales page.

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