emhpasador
08-28-2007, 11:40 AM
One more newbie thought. You have all probably been through this. :)Hopefully this feeling will not fade away.
One of the things that is so amazing about the way that GTD changes your thinking: I am better able already to externalize the demands placed on me. I used to have the vague feeling that if my to-do-list was crazy and out of control, that my life was out of control. (which was almost always) Almost as if I felt obligated to buy into anything that tried to come into my collection buckets. In fact, I don't even think I "felt obligated"; I don't even think I thought about it. It was just a passive acceptance. (And I don't think of myself as a passive person....I just did not have the right critical thinking skills to grasp what was going on.)
I have lately had a better feeling of being apart from my to-do list. Yes, that is a good deal of what makes my life my life. But it is not "ME".
Thanks for humoring me. :) I'll go back to listening and learning, now!
Elaine
One of the things that is so amazing about the way that GTD changes your thinking: I am better able already to externalize the demands placed on me. I used to have the vague feeling that if my to-do-list was crazy and out of control, that my life was out of control. (which was almost always) Almost as if I felt obligated to buy into anything that tried to come into my collection buckets. In fact, I don't even think I "felt obligated"; I don't even think I thought about it. It was just a passive acceptance. (And I don't think of myself as a passive person....I just did not have the right critical thinking skills to grasp what was going on.)
I have lately had a better feeling of being apart from my to-do list. Yes, that is a good deal of what makes my life my life. But it is not "ME".
Thanks for humoring me. :) I'll go back to listening and learning, now!
Elaine