Quote Originally Posted by ArcCaster View Post
The question is, when is it 'ok' to turn away from these projects that I have decided are important enough to track and to schedule and to create next actions for, and do things that are unimportant enough that they are not on my project list: things such as reading a book just for the pleasure of it, or having a rambling conversation with my neighbor?
Whenever you feel like it.

Or, more precisely, whenever--in full awareness of your commitments--you decide that off-list stuff is what you should be doing.

The point of GTD is not to chain you to an inflexible list. It's to give you enough information to decide for yourself, on the fly, what your priorities should be.

Katherine