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New-Agey tosh or useful technique

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New-Agey tosh or useful technique

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    1. New-Agey tosh or useful technique?

    3. The antecedents of GTD Sources New Age "Spiritual" Human potential movement Self-esteem Business Insight seminars Self-regulation (the care of the self) Foucauldian? Oppressive? Taylorism  Science?  Bottom-up approach Emergent complexity 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

    4. Concept This is your brain

    5. Concept Remembering Difficult Clutter Recording Externally Uncluttered Concentrate on: Performing Completing

    6. Principles How it actually works

    7. Collect your stuff... in a bucket Inbox Tape-recorder PDA Notebook Desktop

    8. Methodology 1. Workflow 1. Collect 2. Process 3. Organise 4. Review 5. Do   3. Planning 1. Define purpose & principles 2. Envision the outcome 3. Brainstorming 4. Organising 5. Identifying next actions

    9. Process Start at the top One at a time No procrastination Actions Do Delegate Defer (waiting for) Non-action File Bin Incubate

    10. Organise Categorise Next step Project Open-loop Waiting for Action? Event? Maybe Future possibility learn Chinese take diving holiday File Calendar To-do list A to Z Tickler file

    11. Tools and techniques Tickler file 43 folders 12 months 31 days Software Desktop Online Collaborative Personal The Hipster PDA Technique Store Track Retrieve

    12. My recommendations Should be optional Evaluate if it's useful for you Cognitive style Cost-benefit analysis Homeostasis Shifts the locus of... Fear Anxiety Stress Individual? Environment?

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