Introducing a New Contributor: Michael Gorsline, M.A.
July 29th, 2008 Michael GorslineCategories | Contributors | Getting Things Done | Psychology of GTD
As an editor, one of my great pleasures of my work is getting the opportunity to work with other writers. It’s even better when I get to introduce a fellow author to an audience that I am confident will find the new author’s work to be interesting, informative, useful and sometimes of profound personal relevance. Such is the case with the author I’m introducing here today. Please meet GTDtimes’ newest contributor Michael Gorsline, M.A.
Michael has spent the last 15 years helping parents, children and individuals make life more rewarding. He holds a masters degree in counseling psychology, and has a private practice called Enjoy Parenting Again, where he’s a Parent Coach and Child and Family Therapist. Beyond practicing parent coaching and family therapy, he assists parents and other clients in reducing stressor spillover from areas such as work, bill paying, and household management into the parts of their lives they enjoy most; their relationships and their passions. It goes without saying that road-tested GTD skills are what he draws on most frequently in this work. He is an avid reader in the areas of neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Michael also does frequent speaking engagements, and is an avid blogger at Awareness Connection. He lives with his wife and daughter in Portland, Oregon.
Michael will be writing primarily about the cognitive aspects of GTD as well as the ways in which the application of GTD principals can help families to work together more effectively, accomplish more in less time, and as a result find more time to do the things they enjoy most of all. I am pleased to welcome Michael to our distinguished list of GTDtimes contributors and hope that you’ll join me in welcoming Michael on board. Be sure to check out his inaugural post: Life’s Second Task which will be posted to the site shortly.
Great!! Will anxiously wait for his first writeup.
Ishani,
My first post was a fairly brief one. I recently submitted my next article on the extra-somatic memory function of writing things down—how writing expands cognitive function, making your thinking more flexible and creative. It also takes a peek also at how anything from cocktail napkin planning to whiteboard work enables a sort of parallel processing. The processing helps you to make more connections, and make them more quickly than you can when you leave the pen on the table and keep the boundaries of your thinking strictly inside inside your noggin.