new-agey tosh or useful technique? yvonne aburrow gtd
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New-Agey tosh or useful technique?
Yvonne Aburrow
GTD
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Michel Foucault, The Care of the Self and the panopticon society
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The antecedents of GTDSources• New Age
o "Spiritual"o Human potential
movemento Self-esteem
• Businesso Insight seminars
• Self-regulation (the care of the self)o Foucauldian?o Oppressive?
• Taylorism • Science?
o Bottom-up approacho Emergent complexityo For rationalists
• Getting Things Done by Percy Redfern Creed in 1946 and 1947, revised from How to Get Things Done, 1938.
• Getting Things Done by Edwin C. Bliss and Malcolm Hancock, 1976
• Getting Things Done by Roger Black, 1990
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey and Hyrum W. Smith
• The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management by Stephen R. Covey
• Action Research• The Principles of Scientific
Management by F. W. Taylor (1906)• The Secret• and a million other self-help books
http://tr.im/10h6
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Concept
This is your brain
Before GTD
After GTD
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Concept
• Rememberingo Difficulto Clutter
• Recordingo Externallyo Uncluttered
• Concentrate on:o Performingo Completing
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Principles
How it actually works
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Collect your stuff... in a bucket
• Inbox• Tape-recorder• PDA• Notebook• Desktop
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Methodology
1. Workflow1. Collect2. Process3. Organise4. Review5. Do
3. Planning1. Define purpose & principles2. Envision the outcome3. Brainstorming4. Organising5. Identifying next actions
Get some...• Control• Perspective
2. Framework6. Life goals5. Five-year vision4. Yearly goals3. Areas of responsibility2. Current projects1. Current actions
Models
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Process
• Start at the top• One at a time• No procrastination• Actions
o Doo Delegateo Defer (waiting for)
• Non-actiono Fileo Bino Incubate
Ladder by Georgia O'Keeffe
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Organise• Categorise
o Next stepo Projecto Open-loopo Waiting for
Action? Event? Maybe
Future possibility learn Chinese take diving holiday
• Fileo Calendaro To-do listo A to Zo Tickler file
• Reviewo Dailyo Act
Just do it Simple, easy, fun
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Tools and techniques
• Tickler fileo 43 folders
12 months 31 days
• Softwareo Desktopo Onlineo Collaborativeo Personal
• The Hipster PDA
Technique• Store• Track• Retrieve
Parietal Disgorgement Aid http://tr.im/10h1
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My recommendations
• Should be optional• Evaluate if it's useful for
youo Cognitive styleo Cost-benefit analysiso Homeostasis
• Shifts the locus of...o Fearo Anxietyo Stress
• Individual?• Environment?
http://tr.im/10qu