A common stumbling point on the road to adopting David Allen’s Getting-Things-Done methodology is that we get too wrapped up in the mechanics of the system and fail to think about what we are doing. We stay bogged down in the trenches (at the airport runway level, as Allen puts it) for far too long, and don’t spend enough time at higher elevations looking down at the big picture of what we are up to and where we are headed.

One particular sticking point is when it comes to processing the thoughts that are captured with our “collection tool.” Continue reading Not Taking Collected Thoughts for Granted (GTD) →