I beg to differ from what author says. Am kind of reluctant to materialize all my thoughts, it can be good to note down the ideas but with what author suggests to take dump of my entire brain and its thought is bit over rated.
My point being, when we note down too many things our capacity to remember things gets really bad. It's like am totally dependent on the notes for any action i want to do next. Over the period i feel we will have very poor memory.
A Beginner´s Guide to Getting Things Done
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#222This was mercifully shorter than the Cal Newport book. That's about all I can say for it. Ivan Sutherland had the secret, and it only took one paragraph to share it: ' I used to hate washing dishes. I would delay as long as possible. Eyeing the daunting pile of dishes, I would say to myself, “I'll be here forever at this dumb task.” The enormity of the task deterred me from starting. I still dislike washing dishes, b…
> Its highest form comes when the Lieutenant, charging up a heavily defended hill, says, “Follow me men!”—and they do. That doesn't really endear me to the concept...
Had the same feeling on that part.
I give Sutherland the benefit of the doubt on that one though. He's closer to the WWII generation than the kill-brown-people for "reasons" generations that came before and after.
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#223In theory, GTD is great. In practice, it comes up short in several ways. TLDR - For some years now, I use a system called Agile Results [1]. It's a method (with less marketing behind it than GTD) which has been gaining traction for a lot of good reasons. I couldn't be happier with it. I won't get into the details, but its biggest edge against GTD is the flexibility. With Agile Results, you can let go for a couple of…
So I just read through your [2].
The first part seemed good and reasonable, though towards the end (from day 10 onwards) I felt like the guy was kind of just trying to come up with stuff to excite the reader, and which in my mind cluttered the simplicity of the rest, i.e. the 3 things a week, 3 things a day, hotspots, monday vision and friday reflection (+ dump your brain, but everyone says that).
Would you mind giving a more concrete telling of how you have implemented this system in your life and which parts of this 30 days-thing you find to be indispensable and which are just fluff?
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#224I just use google inbox. It's brilliant UX is guiding me through GTD without even knowing it.
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#226todo task: do GTD
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#227I read David Allen's book in 2002 and immediately started implementing it. At first it felt like godsend. Capturing every "open loop" (everything that is not the way it should be = everything with a delta between current and desired state) and deciding for each of them if there is any action that I need to take and if so, what the very next step was - that practice alone released a ton of energy and gave me a sense o…
That's why I've combined GTD lists with Eisenhower Matrix (prioritizing over Urgent-Important quadrants). Random but good video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT89OZ7TNwc I did run a software product once that was combining GTD and Eisenhower Matrix, which worked quite well. It's now discontinued but a short video in case interested is still online, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22S_1Qjq2J0
I do the same thing in Trello. Trello is amazing for GTD lists, and i use an eisenhower matrix on them. It's amazing how little I actually do and am happy, and I don't have to look at "not urgent, not important" since it is on a different board. I also do not use "urgent, not important", those go into the calendar and I do them or lose them. They aren't important.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you remember the name of the book?
I looked and looked but couldn't find it online. it was just called Zen Buddhism but the author had a very western name. The book had a pretty big impact on me but not in a religious or hooky "one with the cosmos" sort of way. More like it just sort of clicked with me, which is as good a description of the concept as any really. I may still have the book somewhere, if I find I'll post it here.
Just seconding my interest in the book, if you manage to find it. Perhaps you could ask your friend if he remembers?
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you remember the name of the book?
I looked and looked but couldn't find it online. it was just called Zen Buddhism but the author had a very western name. The book had a pretty big impact on me but not in a religious or hooky "one with the cosmos" sort of way. More like it just sort of clicked with me, which is as good a description of the concept as any really. I may still have the book somewhere, if I find I'll post it here.
Are you referring to this book: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Buddhism-Selected-Writings-Suzuki...?
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#230This was mercifully shorter than the Cal Newport book. That's about all I can say for it. Ivan Sutherland had the secret, and it only took one paragraph to share it: ' I used to hate washing dishes. I would delay as long as possible. Eyeing the daunting pile of dishes, I would say to myself, “I'll be here forever at this dumb task.” The enormity of the task deterred me from starting. I still dislike washing dishes, b…
Personally I used the same approach to start running: “just lace the shoes”. After you finish this, you are almost running.
I also use the thought: "I have to have a shower anyway, so why not go for a run first".