The Borg of GTD

Posted on January 21, 2008 No Comments

I honestly try to refrain from posts that are largely a quote. However, this one just grabbed me and I wanted to share.

From 7 Powerful Steps to Overcoming Resistance and Actually Getting Stuff Done (at Zen Habits):

1. Have all our projects and tasks stored in an external system (out of our heads), such as a to-do list or lists.

2. Pick the tasks and projects that are most important to work on.

3. Overcome the resistance to actually doing those important tasks.

And I would submit it’s the last step that’s the most important (although I wouldn’t ignore the other two). Unfortunately, because we’re not very good at overcoming resistance, we procrastinate on this third step by fiddling with the external system — the tools we use to organize our tasks, coming up with new and better systems, tweaking them until they’re near perfect, and so on.

That’s Resistance.

Bam! It is like he must know me.

Tags: GTD, lifehack, productivity