Category: “Getting Things Done - GTD”

Gaining Control Through Engaging:

Gaining Control Through Engaging:

We have seen how we can achieve a very high level of control in our life by capturing everything that holds our interest, clarifying what each thing means and deciding what to do with it, and organizing all those reminders so that we can easily access them at the right time.

We have already established that to be well organized we need a clear and intuitive relationship between the things we need to organize and the place where we put them. In other words, everything must be in its place.

Given the large number of things that can attract our attention throughout the day, and given their variable and often ambiguous nature — tasks, information, ideas, messages, emails, conversations, memories, thoughts, things to be determined —, it becomes necessary to have a kind of extended mind that allows us to release the pressure from our head so that it can devote itself to more productive things.