Life Balancing Getting Things Done and Franklin/Covey

The pure Getting Things Done (GTD) system seems to have some weaknesses. The first one (and I hinted at this in my column on GTD) is that it tends to stress urgency over importance. If something needs to be done, there’s no real difference in the system between one thing and the next. Allen says that the user should rely on intuition to pick what the real priority is out of the list. More often than not, I’ll pick anything but “clean up the living room” out of my @Home context, even if I know that’s what really needs doing the most. I may be “getting things done,” but am I getting the right things done? Covey says that the difference between efficiency and effectiveness is doing things right versus doing the right things. The GTD system doesn’t really enforce effectiveness.

De auteur beschrijft een tool die hem in staat stelt the best of both te realiseren van Covey’s top down en Allen’s bottom up systeem. De tool is Life Balance, die ik al eens eerder heb uitgeprobeerd. Een reden om een Palm aan te schaffen…