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I was lucky enough to attend the seminar on a last minute invitation from the GTD crew. I’m so glad I went. 43 Things has always been a bit close to “Getting Things Done” by the coincidence of our name and Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders. The coincidence extends in the way we both emphasize getting more out of life… make it up and make it happen was one of our early slogans. People use 43 Things to manage all levels of their vision… from the runway to the 50,000 foot view, but GTD really fleshes out some good ideas for how to turn goals into “desired outcomes” and “next actions”.

The odd thing is that I’ve sort of resisted the whole GTD movement up until now because of my impression that it was a bit too OCD and that my own personality was happier sort of living in a flexible chaos. After reading the book and attending the seminar, though, I now see that the GTD program is a lot more flexible than I was giving it credit for. Strangely, it also has a lot in common with completing the Artist’s Way (another of my goals). And it has a lot of overlap with other books I’m reading on life coaching, self-development, cognitive science, intention manifestation, visualization, social sciences (status anxiety), life hacking, and even quantum mechanics.

So, in the spirit of retrying things I don’t like (where the thing I have always disliked is hyper-organization and deliberate planning of tasks), I’ve decided to implement GTD and see how it bounces off my existing lifestyle. A 30-day trial. I’m actually very excited about it. This will involve getting my email in order, setting up my home and work offices, getting a filing system, doing the daily and weekly reviews, and trying to live the zero inbox lifestyle for a bit. It would be crazy if I could pull off a 180 on my organizational habits… as recently I’ve missed property tax payments, paid tax twice, and have missed a few electricity bills due to my current hopes that important issues would find me “just in time”.

A couple concepts from the book that really interested me are the weekly reviews (something I’m already doing in a slightly different context), the reticular activation system, the comfort zone, and outcome visualization. These ideas keep turning up everywhere I look and I think there’s some real important stuff to be uncovered there.

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