Yes, David Allen is carefully agnostic about how each person finds meaning, purpose, and so forth. He does focus on process, however, and how these higher horizons of focus interact with each other, and with projects and next actions. That’s why, for example, I think ideal scenes and treasure maps are tools of discovery outside of GTD which might or might not inform our purpose, principles, vision and so on. Use them to discover the content of your various levels, or not. David Allen is describing what he thinks is the minimal whole-life system for handling everything: births, deaths, war, peace, the whole enchilada. I’ve tried a lot of things, and collected my share of t-shirts, but I have found only GTD to be consistently useful across everything In my life. I hope you find it as useful as I have.Thank you for your input. Yeah, a bit of simplification on each level would be good, and the "family planning" is the wrong word then, will have to change that.
About the dashed box and the GTD methodology: I would argue, that the things outside the dashed box have INPUT into the GTD methodology items inside the dashed box, but are not contained in it. Didn't David Allen write in his book that GTD is not specifically made for stuff like finding meaning and purpose, and that there are countless books and methods for that available (maybe even used the word "guru", if I remember correctly)?
That's such an evocative way of putting it, and resonates for me with instances where I may not have literally bought a shirt but bought into something for a while.I’ve tried a lot of things, and collected my share of t-shirts, but I have found only GTD to be consistently useful across everything In my life. I hope you find it as useful as I have.
Welcome... You're certainly providing some value with your first post! (I haven't posted much myself but have been more active recently with replying to other's threads.)Hi All! First time poster here.
Whenever I am trying to better understand something, it helps if I have a graphic or drawing of some kind. Based on the graphic I made, did I understand the "Horizons of Focus" correctly?