Making It All Work

When you are fully and optimally self-managed, time actually disappears. You’re just engaged.

Usually things remain disorganized when people don’t confront their meaning. To actually decide what you’re going to do with or about something demands that you deal with how you relate to its content, your agreements about it, and how it fits into the rest of your world.

The mind is also a terrible office. The most obvious priorities in your mental stacks tend to be whatever is latest (most recent input) and loudest (most emotionally charged content). There is a chance on a given afternoon that you will give as much mental real estate to “buy bread” as you will to “buy building.” Probably more, because you’re afrai

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. —John Schaar

The Mastering Work Flow model consists of five stages:1 Collect Process Organize Review Do Basically this technique developed as the most effective way to gather, think about, organize, and manage the inventory of all the “stuff ” that we feel we should, want, or need to do something about in our daily lives. It involves capturing all the raw input

A characteristic of these practices is that we hardly need to think about them when things are obvious and easy. We carry out these practices automatically and rather unconsciously when things are flowing and relatively habitual and simple. But when the world throws us for a loop, and when the familiar flow of habitual engagement is disturbed, even

GTD has universal appeal because there is no agenda it tries to promote, other than providing the best and easiest ways to return a sense of control and perspective to your life, in case you’ve slipped behind in either of them.

The popularity of GTD to a large extent has been due to the hunger in the expanding cadres of upper-level performers, in life and work, for a system that really works to reduce friction and increase flow. GTD provides sufficient structure to contain the complexity, although with an organic kind of flexibility that can maintain stability amid an inf

Control without perspective is micromanagement, and perspective without control is crazy-making.