By getting my projects and tasks straight, I was able to see what needed to be done. Systems like GTD are great at getting me organized and prepared. And because I’m very visual, a long list of tasks and projects makes my inability to focus that much worse. There are various factors that affect my focus, but one that’s been fairly constant is being overwhelmed by how many tasks I have to do. I’ve struggled all my life with staying focused. Understanding which items are priorities for you helps you understand when they should get done. This problem of if and when is a problem of prioritization. I had all these projects with associated actions, and contexts, but no idea when I should do them - or even if I should do them at all. But it wasn’t great about helping me decide when to do things. GTD was great about telling me what I needed to do and in what settings I could do it. There was a piece missing - 4 missing pieces, actually - that in my years of using the system and systems like it, I just couldn’t find in it. The concept of the weekly review appealed (and still appeals) to that part of me that knows how good it feels to really think deeply about the stuff of your life and plan to take care of it.īut for all that love I felt (and still feel) for GTD, I’ve had to come to grips over the past few years or with something that I just wasn’t able to get from it. Understanding the world in terms of projects and next actions seemed intuitively right to me. I loved ubiquitous capture (and still do, as a matter of fact). At times, I was more than an adherent, I was a fanatic. For the first 10 years or so of my working life, I was a huge GTD adherent.
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