Quote Originally Posted by andmor
It may initially be a practical method of breaking out of a quagmire and it may have the virtue of encouraging action over planning as the way to break the impasse, but by the time you get to the end of the implementation and have a mature process, I'm not sure that you are operating differently from other approaches - the integration of top-down and bottom-up with relative emphasis as the situation demands.

That said, GtD offers 2 major differentiations to me: 1. A more comprehensive thinking process to the Organization stage...
Again I agree. I found with other systems, I could plan all I wanted but I wasn't get anything done because I didn't have a system that was capable of absorbing the daily "chaos" of typical life. GTD has given me a way to handle all of that. Now, as a chronic procrastinator, I feel I've got a good system in place for keeping track of everything and handling anything that comes my way, but I NEED some type of predefined plan/structure. Otherwise, I get distracted very easily or just pick the things off of NA lists that seem important at the moment.

This forum has given me some good ideas on how to use GTD AND plan.

Thanks