Things I’ve tried:

  • Reading McKeown’s Essentialism. It had some interesting ideas but it was also a very frustrating read.
  • Reading The ONE Thing. It also had interesting ideas, but it didn’t solve my problem.
  • Understanding that I’m ‘simply noticing the commitments I have’. This would be one of the GTD responses.

Things that could work if I did them differently:

  • Values writing, WOOP, or the higher Horizons of Focus.

Things I’ll try:

  • Using Tiny Habits with GTD. In fact, this post itself is an attempt to get potential Tiny Habits!
  • snek_boi@lemmy.mlOP
    1·
    5 days ago

    I’m posting this for anyone who could benefit from it.

    I now manage my Someday/Maybe list by coalescing similar items. That way, the list is more manageable, but I am not getting rid of stuff.

    I got that idea from Jeff Payton’s User Story Maps. He has this idea that stories are like moving asteroids from the game Asteroids. Specifically, big asteroids are easy to keep track of and easy to manage. However, if you destroy an asteroid into smaller pieces, they are more numerous and harder to manage.

    So what does that mean for GTD? If you have many small items in your Someday/Maybe list, see if you can combine them into a larger, more manageable item. On the other hand, if you want to take action on a large item, you’ve got to break it down into smaller pieces.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    7 months ago

    If you’re having trouble deleting things from your Someday/Maybe list that realistically will never come to pass, put them in a Noday/Never list.

    • snek_boi@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      7 months ago

      Huh. That’s an interesting idea. It’s an extra step to the trash can. And that’s good!

      I suppose having this extra step helps with our loss-averse instinct. We have an impulse to hoard, but the Noday/Never list helps us know what we can safely throw away.

      • madnificent@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        The idea of an Archive is to have the thoughts collected for reference somewhere regardless of source. I mark tasks with Rejected (will not do) or Retired (no value anymore, too late) because I find it more expressive than Archived information.

        Never would work too.