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This past Wednesday, an amazing thing happened.

When I finished my work up for the day, I realized for the first time in a long, long, long time, I felt like I was more or less caught up. Specifically, I felt like I’d reached the point where my workload was manageable within the constraints of a 40-45 hour week. Yes, I’ve still got plenty of work to do, but but overall, my tasks are getting done on time (or pretty close to it), and new projects aren’t piling up faster than I’m getting things done.

What a nice feeling! I partially credit the GTD methodology for getting me to this point, even if I did ‘fall off the wagon’ for a bit … because it’s helped me see the big picture better, make better decisions, and not forget little things that needed to be done. It also helps that I’ve been running in the black now for a few months, and cashflow isn’t nearly as much of a distracting problem as it was at this time last year.

I think it’s high time I give some of my personal (read: ‘non-paying’) projects some attention. I’ve got a number of libraries and goodies I’ve developed over the last two years to aid me in creating my projects, and I’ve been wanting to write up documentation on some of them and release them under the BSD license. The time has come to start doing that, and the first one that will get my attention is a little project I call “IntuiSite” … a handly little web app framework that I’ve been tweaking for a little over a year now. So far, I’ve used it in seven standalone projects, and I’m currently using it as the basis for my “big” personal project … one that will hopefully be unveiled in the next few months.

Keep your eyes peeled … I’ll post more information about IntuiSite here in the next couple of days.