Achieve your goals by reducing your stress
October 20th, 2012 GTD Times Team - Staff ContributorsCategories | Cognitive Science | Getting Things Done | Psychology of GTD
Have you ever wished that you could focus more, to achieve the goals that you’ve defined at your higher levels in the GTD Horizons of Focus? According to neuroscience research, your best leverage may be stress-reduction. Stress hormones tend to shut down the parts of your brain that handle goal-directed behavior.
Help your brain to focus on goals by stressing less. How? Get stuff out of your head into your GTD system. And review your commitments often enough that you can trust your choices in the moment.
Please feel free to post a comment about your experience with stress-reduction and achieving goals.
To be honest, it took me a few years to fully appreciate the 30K, 40K and 50K levels but once I did it really gave balance and context to my overall system. This especially true when I am doing my Weekly Review – it is okay to not review my 30-50K Areas of Focus every week. However, even if we have some of the lower levels in control, there are often incomplete and unclear issues at higher levels that need to be addressed to really get it all under control and experience “mind like water.”
Glad you like it. It didn’t work for me. I bought the books, the Outlook add in and other sotarfwe, and visited the davidco.com website. I found I spent more time tracking things than actually doing them, and I found myself taking on more things that I would normally let go. It works best for me to use the regular outlook calandar and tasks. I also just put notes to myself on my desk.good luck to those for whom it works.