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Every now and then I go back to the book Getting Things Done. This time I went back to it after about 2 years. I recommend such a re-reading especially to those who, like me, have become a bit stagnant in using the system (Allen would prefer a systematic approach here 
). First of all - although I have already marked many fragments that I considered very important - it turns out that in this session I marked additional ones dealing with issues of hmm... higher level. Hence, it seems to me that Allen is right that when using GTD we go through certain stages: first technical mastery of all elements of GTD, up to using GTD "transparently" for projects that are initially very unclear and that we would not have thought about before that could be on our radar, such as "Relations with NN" etc. It is often said that by using GTD one can achieve "a mind like water". It is true. But what I found particularly powerful in this session is that this concept means not only a mind free from thoughts that should be collected in an external system, but also that the effect of using GTD is maximum focus, at a given moment and in a given place, on the implementation of one task as if the others did not exist. It is worth emphasizing this because this is the element that counteracts what we call the overhelm.
To sum up: if we want to not only refresh our GTD but also move to a slightly or much higher level of using this "systematic approach", I recommend reaching again for D. Allen's book.
). First of all - although I have already marked many fragments that I considered very important - it turns out that in this session I marked additional ones dealing with issues of hmm... higher level. Hence, it seems to me that Allen is right that when using GTD we go through certain stages: first technical mastery of all elements of GTD, up to using GTD "transparently" for projects that are initially very unclear and that we would not have thought about before that could be on our radar, such as "Relations with NN" etc. It is often said that by using GTD one can achieve "a mind like water". It is true. But what I found particularly powerful in this session is that this concept means not only a mind free from thoughts that should be collected in an external system, but also that the effect of using GTD is maximum focus, at a given moment and in a given place, on the implementation of one task as if the others did not exist. It is worth emphasizing this because this is the element that counteracts what we call the overhelm.To sum up: if we want to not only refresh our GTD but also move to a slightly or much higher level of using this "systematic approach", I recommend reaching again for D. Allen's book.