Right now, I’m in the midst of my first full blown GTD crisis.
Edit: somehow got put into my sock drawer. By me.
I lost my jotter. It’s part of the GTD ethos to collect everything somewhere and trust it. I had about 40 notes; somedays/maybes, etc, in there, and I can’t find the thing anywhere. HOWEVER, I don’t feel that horrible about it because, chances are, I would have been no closer to doing any of the things in there anyway, so there’s that.
But…GTD is having a geometric impact on my own life, for a lot of reasons–I’ll list them:
- Enlightened…It thinks like I (and others) naturally think. Enlightened common sense.
- BIAS TOWARDS ACTION: It frees you to DO the lower level stuff…so you can focus on higher level thinking.
- ELEVATION As you get more lower level stuff knocked out, you can elevate your goals.
- Low Stress You don’t have nagging things in the back of your mind.
- Energy–you can rev yourself up by doing little stuff.
- FREEDOM I don’t have to remember anything anymore–I just trust the system.
- Someday/Maybe. Wow. If ever a category fit, it was someday/maybe. Permission to drop stuff is implied in the “maybe”….but you keep it around just to think about it.
- Lists. It encourages list based thinking, and keeping lists.
- Preparedness: You will be prepared and “ready for anything” when you apply this system.
- Coherent and comprehensive: since it’s fully custom, it’s both coherent and comprehensive.
Now, this kicks off a commitment to you, my 25-26 readers: List mania. I am gonna make at least 10 lists every week; stuff like, the mundane (how to organize a garage) to the esoteric (books I probably should but probably won’t read).
Minimum of 10 lists a week. Minimum of 100 list items.
Lists rock.
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