meaning of stuff Archives - Getting Things Done® David Allen's GTD® Methodology Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:53:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Take a GTD Challenge Around Your “Stuff” https://gettingthingsdone.com/2016/06/take-a-gtd-challenge-around-your-stuff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=take-a-gtd-challenge-around-your-stuff https://gettingthingsdone.com/2016/06/take-a-gtd-challenge-around-your-stuff/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:47:28 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=14975 Things do not get rid of themselves. There seems to be a universal law of physics that goes like this: things that exist want to keep existing, even if there’s no good reason. And I think they have strange, secret, invisible agents that lurk in our psyche, planting little numbing seeds like “it’s there, so there …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2016/06/take-a-gtd-challenge-around-your-stuff/feed/ 3 Meaning, Neatness and Organization https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/03/meaning-neatness-and-organization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meaning-neatness-and-organization https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/03/meaning-neatness-and-organization/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:15:32 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=1105 I had one of those “why didn’t I make the connection before? It’s so obvious!” moments recently, while thinking through a chapter of my book-in-progress. The three things I connected were David Allen’s subtle definition of organization: “where things are suits what they mean to you,” James C. Scott’s masterpiece on how governments develop an …

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