Michael Ramone
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Today, I made a big change to my projects list.
I selected every project and skimmed through the list, asking myself, "What am I committed to?" I tapped every project that stood out, removing its selection. When I was done, I moved the entire selection to Someday/Maybe.
I felt immediately a great relief. All the projects that I no longer felt committed to had been removed from the active system. My projects list sat gracefully at 17 items.
Then I started to wonder, "Is this GTD? Have I violated a rule by deactivating so many projects that are theoretically active?"
Now, I'm questioning my split-second decision. I looked into alternatives to dumping the projects into Someday/Maybe, which primarily boiled down to creating a Later projects list, but I found none cleaner than simply using Someday/Maybe.
To make matters worse, I constantly hear GTDers dropping project counts around 100; one guy even claimed to have 250 active projects (I can't imagine!). Does anyone see a problematic reason for my discomfort with my long projects list? Or is it perhaps a normal individual preference?
I selected every project and skimmed through the list, asking myself, "What am I committed to?" I tapped every project that stood out, removing its selection. When I was done, I moved the entire selection to Someday/Maybe.
I felt immediately a great relief. All the projects that I no longer felt committed to had been removed from the active system. My projects list sat gracefully at 17 items.
Then I started to wonder, "Is this GTD? Have I violated a rule by deactivating so many projects that are theoretically active?"
Now, I'm questioning my split-second decision. I looked into alternatives to dumping the projects into Someday/Maybe, which primarily boiled down to creating a Later projects list, but I found none cleaner than simply using Someday/Maybe.
To make matters worse, I constantly hear GTDers dropping project counts around 100; one guy even claimed to have 250 active projects (I can't imagine!). Does anyone see a problematic reason for my discomfort with my long projects list? Or is it perhaps a normal individual preference?