If you haven’t subscribed to GTD Connect and you want to take your GTD ability to the next level – you might just want to reconsider. In addition to the information coming directly from David and the other David Allen Company coaches there are members-only forums accessible from the David Allen Company website that often have great questions and equally great advice. Take the following example. Here, Kelly Forrister is explaining how you can expand your use of Someday/Maybe lists in ways that can dramatically increase their usefulness and also take your weekly reviews to the next level…

Default Taking Someday/Maybe a step beyond
Someday/Maybe is one of the most powerful lists in my GTD system. I love it because it gives me total freedom to capture stuff even if I have no idea if I’ll have the time, money, resources, courage or talent to do it. <!–more–>They’ve always been my longest set of lists. I have so many items that I break my items into several categories in my Palm Memo Pad:Someday – Work (currently 25 items)
Someday – Personal (68 items)
Like to Buy (56 items)
Places to Go (73 items)

Many people get the idea of Someday/Maybe for obvious things like projects and next actions, but how about those seemingly undefinable open loops like unfinished business or the would/could/shoulds? I was reading a magazine article the other day that was suggesting people look at what their incompletions are through a series of questions. I wondered if people would be more willing to look at these kinds of things if they knew they could have total freedom to capture the answers on Someday/Maybe lists, without the pressure to do anything about it now:

* Things I want to start but haven’t started
* Things I want to change but haven’t changed
* Things I want to stop but haven’t stopped
* Things I started but haven’t finished
* Things I want to do but haven’t done yet
* Things I want to say but haven’t said
* Things I want to learn but haven’t learned
* Things I have felt but haven’t expressed

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Kelly Forrister

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Thank you for these questions. These will be great for the empty-your-head/be-creative part of my weekly review.
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Default Weekly Review audio program
The Someday/Maybe list is one thing that really changed for me after I listened to the GTD>Weekly Review audio program.

In the discussion on Someday/Maybe lists it is pointed out that “You may want to group different someday / maybe items by group, some to review weekly, quarterly, next time in… or many different ways”.

I have since re-grouped my Someday/Maybe lists into:

Someday/Maybe Action: @Action items that might need to be acted on. i.e: an action that can’t be acted on until something else is done first, or maybe not at all.

Someday/Maybe Projects: Typical project type someday/maybe, usually things I’ll have to do when I have the bandwidth.

Someday/Maybe Dreams: This is the really fun one, but I don’t need to review it as often. i.e: scuba dive the great barrier reef, visit all seven continents etc.

For those who have not listened to the weekly review audio program. Performing the weekly review (as it should really be performed), has changed my life as much, as the first time I found and used GTD.

There are literally thousands of questions and answers available in the GTD Connect Forums that can help you improve your knowledge of GTD. Of course you can also post your own questions should one you have not be answered already. Additionally, this is one more venue where those of you with advanced knowledge of GTD can help others benefit from your experience as community members are strongly encouraged to contribute to the discussion both with questions and with answers.

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