Comments on: Getting Things Done http://www.aaronburke.net/2008/12/01/getting-things-done/ Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:05:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Will http://www.aaronburke.net/2008/12/01/getting-things-done/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Will Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:56:50 +0000 http://www.aaronburke.net/?p=106#comment-13 Writing every single thing I need to do down is the first part of that I fail at -- I can't begin to list them all. All of my lists are inevitably incomplete. I've spent hours before trying to make one list until it's time to go to sleep. Then comes problem #2 -- it takes a special state for me to do anything at all. And so if I spend one of my special productive states making a big list, then that's one special productive state down and who knows when the next one will be. One thing is certain -- by the time the next one comes, there will be new things that need adding to the list! GTD has worked for a lot of people and so anyone who thinks it sounds like it could work for them do it, believe it, zen it, and it may well be just the thing. But I have a strong suspicion that the motivational, intertial, belief, and emotional barriers to me following through with a system like that are really 90% of my problem to begin with, so if I could do GTD then I wouldn't need it in the first place! Writing every single thing I need to do down is the first part of that I fail at — I can’t begin to list them all. All of my lists are inevitably incomplete. I’ve spent hours before trying to make one list until it’s time to go to sleep. Then comes problem #2 — it takes a special state for me to do anything at all. And so if I spend one of my special productive states making a big list, then that’s one special productive state down and who knows when the next one will be. One thing is certain — by the time the next one comes, there will be new things that need adding to the list!

GTD has worked for a lot of people and so anyone who thinks it sounds like it could work for them do it, believe it, zen it, and it may well be just the thing. But I have a strong suspicion that the motivational, intertial, belief, and emotional barriers to me following through with a system like that are really 90% of my problem to begin with, so if I could do GTD then I wouldn’t need it in the first place!

]]> By: Alex http://www.aaronburke.net/2008/12/01/getting-things-done/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Alex Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:49:50 +0000 http://www.aaronburke.net/?p=106#comment-12 Yeah, to-do lists are a good way to look at what you gotta do in list-form. Yeah, to-do lists are a good way to look at what you gotta do in list-form.

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