Tag: “Decision Making”

Opportunity cost is a concept used in economics to identify the cost of not doing something. It’s the value of the alternative action lost in making a decision, and is usually a monetary value.

If you are a reader of this blog, you may be looking to organize yourself better so you can be more productive, or you are simply looking to expand your knowledge and skills to better manage your life.

Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor, wrote the book Man’s Search for Meaning. In it, he analysed man’s capacity to overcome his difficulties from a psychiatric point of view. He explains that all human beings, unlike animals, have self-awareness and the ability to act on the basis of that awareness. This means that we’re capable of responding to a stimulus in a completely different way to what our instincts suggest and even to what we have been taught.

The Clarify step of GTD essentially consists in transforming the things you have collected in your inboxes, giving them the real meaning they have in your world. By doing so, you eliminate the uncertainty and stress that can result from their lack of definition.

If there’s a consistent and common theme when two people talk about time, it’s the feeling that the time we have available is not enough to do everything we would like to do, both in our personal and professional lives.