One more thought on lists: I happened to be browsing David Allen’s Ready For Anything, a book of essays that is a follow-up to Getting Things Done, and stopped on chapter 13, where David admits that some of the best projects he’s ever done were things which were not on any of his lists.
Lest this sound heretical, he clarifies the real purpose of having all these lists:
You don’t make the lists of actions and projects just to get them all done and then do nothing else in your life. You process the things you have attention on so you can do what you really feel like doing.
Worth pondering.
