I've been reading "Getting Things Done" by David Allen.I have been using systems, much the same as some of the ideas suggested in the book, for years to organise things at work but I have only ever dabbled with physical systems for organising at home and "life" as in "everything". He shows you how to get everything out of your head,and into a trusted system; whether it be a reminder to buy cat food, build a house or a mere passing thought that you might quite like to do a wing walk in the future. Every time you say to yourself all those "shoulds, coulds, would like too, musts" your brain takes it as an instruction and in the deepest recesses is thinking you should be doing all these things (that you've agreed with yourself to do) 24 hours a day seven days a week. A part of you is always thinking about your failure to do all these things and so a part of you is always stressed and negative.Once you get your brain to trust that you have systems in place to get these tasks done, even if that time might be years in the future, result, clear head, peace and more energy to take on a zillion other things! Anyway, I won't bang on about it anymore, suffice to say it has become a bit of a cult and with very good reason. There are lots of groups and blogs that discuss the book and "getting things done" (GTD)and a topic that often pops up is that of procrastination. This funny animation about procrastination is very good and is the reason I am posting, but like any good cult member I could not resist harping on about GTD.
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