Another minor but earthshaking? revelation
Well, I think this fits a slightly different type of positive experience, but here goes...
I've been struggling with adopting GTD completely - In the six months that I've understood and tried to adapt, I've tried to fit all the bottom-up advice into what I thought I needed for a top-level framework to make sure I'd have the 'most relevant' things popping up at the tops of my lists.
Today I realized that all that 'structure' is already in my head and heart - and no set system will ever keep up with my Zen-flexible home life... so I make the leap:
My Palm-based lists are now one flat, all-inclusive "Outcome" list, and flat context lists to match. No hierarchy other than NAs under projects.
I feel so much more confident that there are no fuzzy 'blind spots' in all my categorizing and shuffling. I can feel the temptation of " 'reorganize for a better goal fit' == procrastinate on everything" sliding away now, replaced by the "I can do these things on the list, because I know I wanted to do these *particular* things, just by having entered them in the system...
So this is what it feels like to be enlightened, in whatever small way
Thanks to everyone that's posted here in the last year or so, and at long last, A particular thanks to Mr. Allen for getting these concepts into a digestible form
Howard