Based on what I have read so far, let me comment on your 5 things:

1. Very good idea, but do you need that Blackberry anyway? Are things always that urgent that you need to read and respond to every email and call as soon as it comes in? Probably not. Make sure you create your boundaries and just don’t pick up the phone when “work” is calling after a certain hour.

2. 10pm? What about setting that to 8pm? It will force you to be much more selective and focus on the things that are really important, not that might be important.

3. Are you in a situation where you can easily work from home? Why not leave very early then? You won’t have to rush and you would be able to spend some time with your son as well instead of just putting him to bed. He will be happy and that will make you happy. After that, you can still do some work that really needed to be done (only the very important stuff that really can not wait till the day after), but stop doing that at the time you set in point 2 above.

4. First determine what you would like to do, then how much time you want to spend on it. If that is more that one night, then so be it and try to arrange “work” to fit in that schedule, instead of fitting your (social) life into your work.

5. Now that is a good one of course, but make sure that you are honest and that you don’t need to spend a lot of time on the administration of that. Otherwise you would just be replacing work with other work.

I am just a beginner in GTD and haven’t even read Making It All Work yet (just also bought the audio book, so that I can listen while commuting to work in the car, I unfortunately am not allowed to work from home yet). I am currently listening to the 4 hour work week (half way now). Tim Ferriss makes some very good points. By combining both as much as I can at the moment, I already feel more free that before. But as you, I am not “there” yet…

Good luck and keep us up to date on your progress.

With kind regards,
Sander Robijns
Owner of a one-man IT & management consulting company