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I love GTD...in theory. It is rational, and it should work. In practice, it ended up being demoralizing to realize how little of what I should do and would li

I love GTD...in theory. It is rational, and it should work. In practice, it ended up being demoralizing to realize how little of what I should do and would like to do I actually have time for. It was "stress free" in the sense that I was missing fewer urgent (Covey) things for sure. It was very stressful in that it set a mood of "never enough...never enough". I think everyone should try it though and obviously, ymmv. [EDIT: oh, and if you do want to try it, this is really useful write up].

Jabinc 9y ago
I struggle with the "never enough" side effect a lot. I am hopeful that continuing to hone the system will allow me to reach David Allen's stress free notion of "I can only do one thing at a time, and this is what I am choosing to do." Applying the 10K foot goals helps me with the larger life balance, but I still feel overwhelmed much more than is healthy.