Once again, I find myself drowning under a sea of paperwork.  It seems like every project with which I’m involved has suddenly ground to a halt and demanded my attention.  But contrary to last time this occured, I’m feeling calm and on top of my workload.

The reason for this is I have been diligently doing my weekly reviews for the past few weeks.  I have found my equilibrium with these little things, and now I’m really starting to get the hang of this GTD thing.

The one thing that has helped make this happen is that I’m not doing my reviews strictly weekly.  While they occur at least every week, I’m doing a full review of my work-life whenever I feel that I am losing my grip.  Whether this occurs on a Friday afternoon (which is my traditional time-blocked weekly review appointment) or on a Wednesday morning because I’m starting the freak, they are getting done now far more regularly.  And in return, I’m finding myself far more efficient and relaxed.

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I’m busy.  And impatient.  Consider it a symptom of a Gen-X, child of the 80’s type lifestyle, but I really don’t have time to waste.  So why is it that websites still think that when looking to purchase their software, I’ll want to read pages of text about how great it is and then spend the next fifteen minutes trying to find how much it will cost?

This happens time and again.  Find intruiging software review on a website somewhere, click through to website selling said software to look a little further into it.  Find a page full of the standard sales spiel (the software will change your life/work/outlook/productivity/dress size), a few screenshots that are generally too small for the human eye to casually see and a couple of testimonials from people I’ve never heard of.

The one thing that an awful lot of these websites fail to have on their product pages is the price.  That is an important one for me.  I don’t really want to get all excited about a product that will change my life or my dress size and then find that it is going to cost somewhere in the vicinity of a small country’s GDP to purchase.  I’ve seen it; brilliant pieces of software, fabulous things that will change the way I work, but no clue as to how much dough I need to cough up.

So please, stick a big sign on your product’s home page with the cost; it’ll save me time and will give you a better chance of seeing my wallet.