Well said. I have been utilizing GTD for several years (thanks to MLO) and because I don't clutter my mind with things I need to remember, I am the person people seek at work for how to be organized, not miss deadlines, and be as productive as I am.
On Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 5:40:01 AM UTC-5, pottster wrote: > > The idea expressed in the article is really just another way of saying > concentrate on "doing the right things" more than "doing things right". In > other words, create the space/time to regularly review what your current > priorities and goals are. The important point here is that they CHANGE; > hence the importance of regular reviews within GTD. A lot of this is > expounded in David Allen's book Ready For Anything which never got the good > reviews it deserved because people were expecting another nuts and bolts > treatise like Getting Things Done. It's worth a read if you haven't already. > > On Friday, 24 July 2015 13:06:33 UTC+1, John Smith wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> What do you make of this interesting article? >> >> http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/productive-people-do-nothing/1107640/ >> >> Apparently the key to productivity is not blasting through (endless) >> to-do lists flat out, nope - not even nicely prioritized ones. No, >> according to David Allen the trick is to create enough 'space' in your mind >> in order to think clearly. The way to do this can be either to deliberately >> put stuff off or to deliberately not do most of the stuff on your list at >> all. >> >> I think the title is slightly disingenuous - highly productive people >> don't JUST sit around "doing nothing", but nonetheless spending a >> significant amount of time doing nothing is extremely important nonetheless >> to one's overall productivity. >> >> Food for thought, no? >> >> John >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/86b201ea-0dae-4219-b791-a78ec0f947df%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
