My personal management system is set up to prevent ever having to
have a thought twice! I capture thoughts when I have them, so I don't
have to have them in the same way again. I only put things on my
calendar that have to get done that day, so I don't have to keep
rethinking what's on the page when I look at it. I have an
"@Computer-Online" list of actions, separate from my "@Computer" list,
so when I'm working on my laptop on a no-Wi-Fi plane, I don't have to
keep rethinking which items on the list I can do, and which I can't. I
decide the next action step on my projects and keep those current, so I
don't have to keep thinking "what should I be doing to make this
happen?" I review the projects and areas of interest and focus of my
life once a week, so that I don't have to keep thinking that I should be
thinking about them.
I was not born a very naturally organized kind of person, and it's
not something I do for its own sake. I have just worked pretty hard at
figuring out how to not work that hard. There are better things to do
than to waste energy.
GTD was born out of my desire to find the easiest ways to do things, with the least amount of effort.
