Sometimes, even GTD author David Allen feels that there’s not enough time to do all that needs to be done. He offers some advice.
https://youtu.be/3uKbjQ9fik0
https://youtu.be/3uKbjQ9fik0
When There's Too Much To Do
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I want to give some constructive feedback here since I think the point was completely missed.
Looking at the video, I am not sure of the exact question David Allen was asked. Skipping past the separately recorded introduction, it just goes straight into David's response to some question without hearing the actual question asked of him. I am going to give David the benefit of the doubt by saying the question he got asked and the question presented in the video title were not the same or at least not exactly the same.
Yeah, like @Suelin23 said, David's entire response can summed up as "Do GTD". Which, if we are being honest, is not helpful or useful at all. That's what leads to me to believe something's not right here. I know David's generally always going to advocate for GTD and how it can help, and it does. However, I really don't think anyone can say this video or that answer was helpful or addressed the question being presented here.
However, if David's answer to the specific question: "Hey David, what would you say to or advise the folks who would ask you: 'I am doing GTD and I've got too much to do. Help me.'" is essentially just "Do GTD" ... I would say that's not helpful because the conversation really should come down to the level of tactics and specifically actionable techniques, tips, and tools people can utilize in such situations. Which, David generally does respond with when he gets that kind of question.
Again, I want to be constructive in my feedback. I think David Allen's response is so bad or comes off as him completely answering a different question is probably because he wasn't actually asked the question the video title says he was. I am chalking this up to there being missing context and David's response being taken out-of-context. I would recommended actually changing the title to the question asked and/or actually reposting the video to include the question asked by Dave to David so that the audience is not confused as to why David is clearly seeming to answer a whole other question.
Looking at the video, I am not sure of the exact question David Allen was asked. Skipping past the separately recorded introduction, it just goes straight into David's response to some question without hearing the actual question asked of him. I am going to give David the benefit of the doubt by saying the question he got asked and the question presented in the video title were not the same or at least not exactly the same.
Yeah, like @Suelin23 said, David's entire response can summed up as "Do GTD". Which, if we are being honest, is not helpful or useful at all. That's what leads to me to believe something's not right here. I know David's generally always going to advocate for GTD and how it can help, and it does. However, I really don't think anyone can say this video or that answer was helpful or addressed the question being presented here.
However, if David's answer to the specific question: "Hey David, what would you say to or advise the folks who would ask you: 'I am doing GTD and I've got too much to do. Help me.'" is essentially just "Do GTD" ... I would say that's not helpful because the conversation really should come down to the level of tactics and specifically actionable techniques, tips, and tools people can utilize in such situations. Which, David generally does respond with when he gets that kind of question.
Again, I want to be constructive in my feedback. I think David Allen's response is so bad or comes off as him completely answering a different question is probably because he wasn't actually asked the question the video title says he was. I am chalking this up to there being missing context and David's response being taken out-of-context. I would recommended actually changing the title to the question asked and/or actually reposting the video to include the question asked by Dave to David so that the audience is not confused as to why David is clearly seeming to answer a whole other question.
Tom_Hagen
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I agree with your opinion. I also think that the conversation did not bring anything new. Doing is - in my opinion - the least recognized fragment of GTD. Yes, we have the whole theory: priority, time, context, energy, ongoing work, planned work, work planning, etc. But let's be honest - this is the most difficult part of the entire GTD and it cannot be reduced to "intuitive selection". We have various problems to solve here, such as procrastination, the implementation of long -term projects, overhelming, etc. I think that just as it is correct to think that GTD allows you to capture everything we have to do so GTD does not guarantee us that we will do everything. Hence Allan is right when he talks about the need to renegotiate contracts.
I think that in the case of the "doing" phase, it is worth using additional techniques according to the needs and/or taste - like the technique of Pommeodoro, Slide Edge and perhaps different.
It is also worth mentioning what psychologists say about the motivation itself, and thus the association of "pleasure" with the doing itself and not the goal in itself. Until now, the goal and its visualization have been strongly emphasized in psychology. However, it turns out that if we develop an internally association of "pleasure" with effort, we get motivation, that is dopamine injection.
I think that in the case of the "doing" phase, it is worth using additional techniques according to the needs and/or taste - like the technique of Pommeodoro, Slide Edge and perhaps different.
It is also worth mentioning what psychologists say about the motivation itself, and thus the association of "pleasure" with the doing itself and not the goal in itself. Until now, the goal and its visualization have been strongly emphasized in psychology. However, it turns out that if we develop an internally association of "pleasure" with effort, we get motivation, that is dopamine injection.