Consistent, Current and Context-driven

The podcast episode, Consistent, Current and Context-driven, is a scant 5 minutes and 43 seconds long. You’ll probably want to pause and take some notes. After it widens your eyes, go revisit your copy of Getting Things Done—or omgbecky buy a copy, …how do you not own a copy?

Everything I have ever accomplished is because I have systems within which I can think and operate; our brains are for having ideas, not for remembering things [such as: to-do lists, dates, reminders, etc.]

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Getting things done

GTD

The fact that you can’t remember an agreement you made with yourself doesn’t mean that you’re not holding yourself liable for it. Ask any psychologist how much of a sense of past and future that part of your psyche has, the part that was storing the list you dumped: zero. It’s all present tense in there. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you should do something, if you file it only in your short-term memory, that part of you thinks you should be doing it all the time. And that means that as soon as you’ve given yourself two things to do, and filed them only in your head, you’ve created instant and automatic stress and failure, because you can’t do them both at once, and that (apparently significant) part of you psyche will continue to hold you accountable.

~ David Allen from, Getting Things Done

I talk often about David Allen’s, Getting Things Done. It’s one of a few books which I keep extra copies of on hand to give to people. There’s a Wikipedia article, Getting Things Done, but it talks more about it rather than describing what/how to do it.

I recently found a talk given by Allen which has been repurposed as a short podcast; Getting Things Done: 55 – Removing System Drag is well worth the few minutes it takes to listen.

Aside: Learning when and how to “go deep” is an important part of what you gain when you understand GTD. If the thought of spending five minutes listening to someone teach you something abhors you, you may need GTD more than you think. /preaching

If, however, what Allen said interests you, a fellow podcaster named Jey Jeyendran, (of Productivity Heaven,) is working on a mini series of podcasts on Allen’s GTD. They’re bite-sized, inspiring and you should check them out. https://productivity-heaven.simplecast.com.

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You can’t fool your mind

You can’t fool your mind.  It’s an expert on your current personal management system, and it knows whether you can be trusted to look at what you need to at the appropriate time.  It knows if you’ve decided what the next action should be. And it knows if there is a reminder of that action placed somewhere you will actually look, when you could possibly take that action. If you have not done any of that, your mind won’t let it go. It can’t. It will endlessly keep trying to remind you of what to remember. The mind is a loyal and dedicated servant, but it needs to be given the jobs it does well–not the ones that it mismanages.

~ David Allen from, Ready for Anything

…and yet I try all the time. Fortunately I’ve gotten much better at capturing my thoughts.

The important part, the hard part—one might even say, “the trick”—is to have regular and sufficient time to review all the things I’ve captured. Do I really want to read that book that piqued my interest? Do I really want to try that new recipe I found? Do I really want to go to the trouble of adding that new electric outlet in the dining room?

I see too many people with no way of capturing their thoughts, and I see very few people who have a habit of regularly assessing what they want to be doing.

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Not everything

You can do anything, but not everything.

~ David Allen

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🏛️ El Cuerpo de Paz de Estados Unidos vuelve a enviar voluntarios a Syunik tras 6 años de ausencia 🚀. Son 30 jóvenes que enseñarán inglés y liderazgo durante dos años 📚💡 El embajador David Allen dice que confían plenamente en la seguridad de la región gracias a los acuerdos de paz firmados con Washington 🤝 #AcuerdosDeWashington #armenia #CooperaciónInternacional #CuerpoDePaz #DavidAllen #educación #ereván #EstadosUnidos #syunik #tripp https://soyarmenio.com/cuerpo-de-paz-estados-unidos-syunik/

What you are not doing

There is always more to do than you can do, and you can do only one thing at a time. The key is to feel as good about what you’re not doing as about what you are doing at that moment.

~ David Allen

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✨ ¡Justicia para Armenia! 🏠 La mansión de lujo del exministro Khachatryan en Los Ángeles fue vendida. ⚖️ Un tribunal de EE. UU. confirmó que se compró con dinero ilícito. 🤝 ¡Ahora EE. UU. devolverá la mayoría del dinero a Armenia! 🚀 Gran victoria en la lucha contra la corrupción. #AnnaVardapetyan #armenia #corrupción #DavidAllen #EstadosUnidos #GagikKhachatryan #LosÁngeles #RecuperaciónDeActivos https://soyarmenio.com/los-angeles-devuelve-fondos-mansion-khachatryan/

LE TEORIE SULLA DATA DEL 25 DICEMBRE, NATALE CRISTIANO https://www.danielemancini-archeologia.it/le-teorie-sulla-data-del-25-dicembre-natale-cristiano/ #25Dicembre, #DavidAllen, #Natale, #PaulBradshaw, #PhilippNothaft, #SolInvictus, #UniversitàDiNotreDame, #UniversitàDiOxford @cultura

Taking a couple days off to listen to interesting neo-soul albums, read more of the Mars Trilogy by KS Robinson, read more of Getting Things Done by David Allen, and play electric bass for an ungodly number of hours. And do exercises to keep my fingers from entering into early-stage musical-instrument-playing induced rigor mortis. #electricbass #neosoulmusic #kimstanleyrobinson #davidallen