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The issue with such system is that it does not allow you to plan for the future on the basis of your priorities and long term goals. It does allow you to get t

by resiros 12y ago

The issue with such system is that it does not allow you to plan for the future on the basis of your priorities and long term goals. It does allow you to get things done, but generally you'll be only getting urgent things done, while important but not urgent things are left behind (learning a new programming language or a technology, practicing) your guitar. Here is one trick that improved my productivity much and allowed me to concentrate on what is important. I extended such system with the ability of weekly planning (and not only review). At the beginning of each week I assign time for each of my project depending on its priority and its alignment with your long term goal. I start by stating my long term goals and my principles, then what projects I am working on, what short-term goals I want achieve. I then assign when and how long I will work on each projects.

arafalov 12y ago
Have you read the book? Because that's what horizons are about. And the second and third book in the series go into life-goals quite a bit. But yes, it starts from the premise of building to that bottom-up, not top-down. Once you have your flow/sense of control, David Allen said, your brain is unlocked to think hard of the more important things.
AnonJ 12y ago
That kind of "planning" mostly won't work. I've tried to do exactly that but it's really just IMPOSSIBLE to get your planned actions done exactly on planned timeslots. In the end the whole "planning" unravels. GTD makes a lot of sense to me because it completely avoids the problem by detaching actionable items from specific time slots: you just do pre-specified items one by one whenever you can. It doesn't deviate you from long-term plans at all, because you'll put them into "in" list also, and then write out the step-by-step thing to do. The only slight difficulty might be with repetitive items.

by resiros 12y ago

arafalov 12y ago

Have you read the book? Because that's what horizons are about. And the second and third book in the series go into life-goals quite a bit. But yes, it starts from the premise of building to that bottom-up, not top-down. Once you have your flow/sense of control, David Allen said, your brain is unlocked to think hard of the more important things.

AnonJ 12y ago

That kind of "planning" mostly won't work. I've tried to do exactly that but it's really just IMPOSSIBLE to get your planned actions done exactly on planned timeslots. In the end the whole "planning" unravels. GTD makes a lot of sense to me because it completely avoids the problem by detaching actionable items from specific time slots: you just do pre-specified items one by one whenever you can. It doesn't deviate you from long-term plans at all, because you'll put them into "in" list also, and then write out the step-by-step thing to do. The only slight difficulty might be with repetitive items.