Organizing your workspace and “Getting Things Done”

Hello In[FOCUS] Reader,

Have you ever wished there was another 5 hours in your workday? Have you ever turned off the computer well past midnight to only think to yourself, What did I actually accomplish today? Well, we do. But we think we’ve found a solution and we want to share it with you.

Our business is currently at a turning point; we’re turning away too many clients! Our advertising dollars and networking relationships are not meeting their full potential!  We want to both increase the number of weddings we do while raising our prices.


Besides Corbin and I, we only have two other part-time camera operators. It’s time to hire and train more camera operators and editors, right? Not so fast…Here is our dilemma: our workflow is already taxed, no time to train…no time to allow the business to grow.


Corbin is our main editor, so, 6 months ago we purchased a MacBook Pro, our 2nd editing system. The idea was that with two of us editing we would become backlog free. But it’s just not working out that way – there’s a business to run, and lots of relationships to maintain: current clients, wedding planners, and other vendors.


Working 12-14 hour days, seven days a week is not an option…we don’t want to become slaves to our business.


So to grow our volume while training new staff, we are first training ourselves to become more efficient by putting ourselves on the Getting Things Done productivity plan, a resource by David Allen.


In this first of 3 posts, we want to show you how much we have to accomplish. The video below is our current office situation (the password is done):

Organizing Your Workspace & “Getting Things Done” from Soulbox Productions on Vimeo.

In part II, Corbin and I will share with you some of the concepts from David Allen’s Getting Things Done. In the third and final entry in this series, we will show you how we executed what we’ve learned from Getting Things Done and how it has benefited our workflow and business.


We encourage you to experience the book with us.


Dave, Corb, Soulbox

Dave and Corbin Baxter