Couple of years ago I read the book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. One of the things he mentioned is that
When I coach a client through this process, the capture phase usually takes between one and six hours, though it did take an entire twenty hours with one person (finally I told him, “You get the idea”)
Initially, I did not believe this. I’m not saying that David was lying, but rather, I cannot believe it took someone twenty hours to “unload” their state of mind.
Today, I take that back. I’ve fallen off the wagon (or is it “on the wagon”?) couple of months ago, and today I decided to recapture and re-implement my setup.
It took me 6 hours, and I’m not even at my peak load. I can’t imagine what would’ve happened if I delayed longer, or took on more projects.
Now that I have 120 things in my “Next Action” list (according to OmniFocus), I can finally feel calm knowing that I know exactly what I have to do. Hell, I even found time to blog about it.
See you tomorrow…