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When you know you'll get email to zero, you're free to deal with the ones you choose, when you choose. Most productive.
Here's how I define "stuff": anything you have allowed into your psychological or physical world that doesn't belong where it is, but for which you haven't yet determined the desired outcome and the next action step.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)
Good ideas are infinitely available. We've just limited our availablitly to them. The music's not in the radio.
First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)
Valuable thought occurred today to share. Obvious in the moment. Can't retrieve now. Didn't capture. I teach this. Damn.
[I]f it's just you, attempting to come up with a "good idea" before defining your purpose, creating a vision, and collecting lots of bad ideas is likely to give you a case of creative constipation.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)
Over-prepare. Then go with the flow.
You'll be motivated to exercise the #GTD method to the degree you really care about what you're doing.
#GTD 2.0 = what to do with your head, once it's clear.
What would you do w/more space, if you had it? Without a good answer, you'll not have the juice to really do #GTD.
Most often, the reason something is "on your mind" is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet:
• you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcomes is;
• you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is;
• and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust.
That's why it's on your mind.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)
Eternal #GTD paradox: when you get the principle, the tool doesn't matter. But simultaneosly it matters so much more.