Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. Responding inappropriately to your e-mail, your thoughts about what you need to do, your children, or your boss will lead to less effective results than you’d like. Most people give either more or less attention to things than they deserve, simply because they... See more

Mindfulness demands intention. Mindfulness is the practice of simply doing the work. Without commentary, without chatter, without fear. To simply do our work. The easiest way to achieve this is to be clear about the purpose of the work. Because if the purpose is to follow a process (something that is under our control), we can focus on the process,

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Having a “mind like water”—an image taken from a karate metaphor used to describe a state of clarity and openness—has become a common theme associated with the GTD methods. Just as water responds perfectly and appropriately to whatever it interacts with, without stress, strain, or undue energy, when we are free of distraction we have a greater

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