GTD does not suggest you stop using your brain (hence losing mental power). It simply suggests using it for more strategic and creative thinking, rather than as a bad to do list manager.

Yes, people have reported losing their systems. Backup is a good idea if you have your attention on that as a concern.

The GTD Times Team

I have two questions on the method:

While I agree that keeping things externally could reduce stress, are we not creating dependencies on external equipment, whether a paper based list or a PDA and so on? and trusting/using our memory less and less? will this not lead to diminished mental power?

also, we need to create backups for the equipment – incase the paper list is lost – or the pda is stolen.. and if those eventualities happen (without having backed up stuff), we might tend to just wander around like headless chicken… have people reported such instances to you?

but i think your observations are right on on the decisioning process.. i have seen that i rarely think and take conscious decisions.. and am mostly being driven by what has become urgent/comes up on top of my mind..

asking those questions and making those back-of-envelope decisions are some of the most important skills that I have started to do.. and thanks are due to you for teaching us that…

regds, suresh

Best Regards, Suresh

Good overview. I have shared it with my key managers.

Dave

Brilliantly spoken David !