Making It All Work

The major component that has been missing to make this game play-able across the entire spectrum of your life, however, is the training to finish your thinking.

Our mind can do certain kinds of things, in a highly creative way, that still surpass anything the most powerful computer can do. Its ability to integrate an almost infinite set of variables in any situation is uncanny. Give it a problem or a project on which to focus, and the amount of complexity it can absorb and creativity it can produce are ext

The value of reflection for perspective is perhaps best expressed by another basic GTD tenet: your mind should be used to think about your stuff, not of it.

“Finish your thinking” simply means to decide what the next physical thing to do is to move them forward from where they are. This is a prime example of not putting the appropriate attention on what has your attention. You need to think about your stuff more than you think, but not as much as you’re afraid you might.

If you aren’t yet at the point of clarity, then make that your first goal. It’s a big waste of time to go through life being unclear about what you want. Most people wallow way too long in the state of “I don’t know what to do.” They wait for some external force to provide them with clarity, never realizing that clarity is self-created. The univers

The art of mastering work flow, by collecting, processing, organizing, reviewing, and doing, provides the component of control. The Natural Planning Model and the Horizons of Focus both supply perspective.

“What-if ” and “as-if ” scenarios are common exercises. Having a team collaboratively write a major article in some well-known national or international publication, extolling the success the team or company has achieved, as if it has already happened, always produces interesting results. Though the assignment may sound somewhat artificial, “unreal

How you view the business of your life and the game of your work is the ultimate key to winning at them.

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.