GTD is bottom up. You have to collect everything you have already committed to and know your commitments and actions. Then you keep moving up the idea is to get

GTD is bottom up. You have to collect everything you have already committed to and know your commitments and actions. Then you keep moving up the idea is to get to a place where your goals and life choices are driving all the decisions on what you commit to in the future. If you implemented GTD you only captured and identified what you were already agreeing to do. This is where the 50K foot view stuff comes in. http://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/01/the-6-horizons-of-focus/ http://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/01/the-6-horizons-of-focus... BTW i don't follow GTD strictly any more because it lacks a proper way to manage projects in my mind BUT it was designed around committing to the things you have to and the things that align with you.