The most difficult thing for me when I began this GTD journey years ago, was to get into the habit of getting things off my mind by putting them immediately into my trusted system. I can't imagine now doing anything but getting it immediately off my mind after doing this for several years now.
When I recently began a new way of eating where I track my "macros" I found it very easy to immediately enter anything and everything I ate straight into my app that tracks & calculates it all. I've told others about this simplistic way of being able to track your eating habits and they balk at having to take the time to enter it all into the app. I have gently reminded them that once you begin doing this, it will take only a few seconds of your time to do so and that the more you do this, the easier and more second nature it will become.
It is the same way with GTD. You need only to get on board with it first and then keep going with it -refining it to fit your needs in whatever way works best for you. If you don't spend a little bit of time on the front end, you'll spend twice as much time with it on the back end.
I can't help but always think of the old 80s song, (I'm dating myself, I realize.) Free Your Mind by En Vogue every time I think of a Mindsweep or simply getting things off my mind and into my trusted system. Cue the music...
When I recently began a new way of eating where I track my "macros" I found it very easy to immediately enter anything and everything I ate straight into my app that tracks & calculates it all. I've told others about this simplistic way of being able to track your eating habits and they balk at having to take the time to enter it all into the app. I have gently reminded them that once you begin doing this, it will take only a few seconds of your time to do so and that the more you do this, the easier and more second nature it will become.
It is the same way with GTD. You need only to get on board with it first and then keep going with it -refining it to fit your needs in whatever way works best for you. If you don't spend a little bit of time on the front end, you'll spend twice as much time with it on the back end.
I can't help but always think of the old 80s song, (I'm dating myself, I realize.) Free Your Mind by En Vogue every time I think of a Mindsweep or simply getting things off my mind and into my trusted system. Cue the music...
Taking a few moments now makes my future brain cells very relived from having to think of it! 
