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vikramsjnTime management guru David Allen has established a cult following. Devotees of his Getting Things Done manifesto claim it has the power to change lives
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The problem we all face, says Allen, is of things in their wrong place. There's always too much to be done and never enough time to do it in. The stress we feel isn't because we're overwhelmed with tasks, but with "stuff". That amorphous mess of "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." This collection of uncompleted actions and stray stuff - open loops in the GTD lingo - does nothing, according to Allen, but create stress and block thinking. It rattles around in our heads and gets in the way. As we run from fire to fire, email to voicemail, meeting to meeting, modern life seems to be nothing but a fight against the rising tide of distracting stuff. We're too busy trying to stay on top of what we have to do, that we don't get to do any of it. Too worried about remembering that our brains are too tired to be creative or relax. It's a vicious circle: the more things to do, the slower we're able to do them, and the more they pile up. Sound familiar? The answer, Allen points out with forehead-slapping clarity, is to get all of this stuff out of our head and into a trusted system. Once you've written down everything you need to do, and have a system that you know you can trust to contain every necessary task, the freshly GTDed mind will be free to actually get the stuff done. "The truth is, it takes more energy to keep something inside your head than outside," says Allen.
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The problem we all face, says Allen, is of things in their wrong place. There's always too much to be done and never enough time to do it in. The stress we feel isn't because we're overwhelmed with tasks, but with "stuff". That amorphous mess of "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." This collection of uncompleted actions and stray stuff - open loops in the GTD lingo - does nothing, according to Allen, but create stress and block thinking. It rattles around in our heads and gets in the way. As we run from fire to fire, email to voicemail, meeting to meeting, modern life seems to be nothing but a fight against the rising tide of distracting stuff. We're too busy trying to stay on top of what we have to do, that we don't get to do any of it. Too worried about remembering that our brains are too tired to be creative or relax. It's a vicious circle: the more things to do, the slower we're able to do them, and the more they pile up. Sound familiar? The answer, Allen points out with forehead-slapping clarity, is to get all of this stuff out of our head and into a trusted system. Once you've written down everything you need to do, and have a system that you know you can trust to contain every necessary task, the freshly GTDed mind will be free to actually get the stuff done. "The truth is, it takes more energy to keep something inside your head than outside," says Allen.
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29 Sep 05
Andrew WhiteTime management guru David Allen has established a cult following. Devotees of his Getting Things Done manifesto claim it has the power to change lives. Ben Hammersley is a believer
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Time management guru David Allen has established a cult following. Devotees of his Getting Things Done manifesto claim it has the power to change lives. Ben Hammersley is a believer
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