Effective Listening, Writing and Thinking [Getting Things Done]
One irreversible and positive consequence of applying GTD to your life is the fundamental change in the way you listen to people, write down your notes and think about things in general.
This is not something you will notice right after getting started with GTD. It will take weeks, perhaps months, of discipline and practice with the core GTD principles.
David Allen states that two of the most important questions you can ask yourself about anything, are:
1. What is the successful outcome (of this project)?
2. What is the next action (the very next, physical step you can take to make progress on this project)?
Note that a project is not a project in the classical sense of the word but simply a multi-step action in GTD speak.
I’ve found that consistenly applying these two simple but powerful questions (and especially the answers to them!) combined with an acute awareness about how “stuff” is processed and organized into your GTD system, fundamentally alters the way you think, the way you listen, the way you write and perhaps even the way you read, for the better!
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