Tag: “Motivation”

A few days ago, GTD Times — the official blog of the David Allen company — published a very interesting 3-minute video ¹ where David Allen talks about the five stages in the GTD lifecycle. He calls them The Five I’s:

Although expressed in different ways, this is a frequently asked question by many FacileThings users:

Human beings, throughout history, have always played with the idea of reaching a status in which leisure is most of their time and work obligations are minimal. If we can avoid hard work and rush, better.

Some organization is needed and I think we all agree on that, albeit at different levels. No matter how disorganized you think you are, you surely keep the cutlery in the kitchen and your toothbrush in the bathroom. It is hard and stressful to live without knowing where the stuff is when you need it, right?

You feel overwhelmed by the large number of commitments that you have to deal with in your life. You just can’t keep up. You have tried to apply all the tricks that you found on the web to get better organized and you’ve tried all the tools that promised to improve your productivity, but you haven’t achieved a significant improvement.