I just heard about that book from someone else! It sounded like a nice spin on it. On Aug 4, 2015 6:10 PM, "Stephen Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lisa, > > From what you have said, one book you might find useful is Essentialism by > Greg McKeown. The approach it sets out is one that would seem to address > some of the issues you have raised. I do not fully subscribe to everything > in the book, but it has helped me to develop an approach to productivity > that suits me and has taken the stress out of not getting everything done > or even spending some time "doing nothing". I am actually achieving more by > doing less. > > Regards > > Stephen J > > > On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 23:50:37 UTC+10, Lisa S wrote: >> >> Just wanted to chime in on this thread . I think this article title is >> misleading as to what the article discusses ( in the opposite way from your >> point, John , but both are true). I don't see having to clear all the tasks >> in your head out as necessary for the mindful practices that have been >> shown to help health and productivity, and I was expecting a different kind >> of "do-nothing" than they describe, more along the lines of time resetting >> the nervous system out of the constant stress, fight or flight mode that >> task management tends to pull me into . >> >> I am very intrigued by the concept the title itself implies. I do think >> that such activities – relaxing in nature, meditation, exercise, morning >> pages journaling, a discipline like the one I do, Tai Chi Chih – for me are >> having a profound effect on my relationship with my task list and all of >> the shoulds. An amazing amount of effort goes into anxiety in our >> culture... staggering, really , I'm realizing for myself anyway. I haven't >> yet learned to channel that anxiety into productivity, but I am learning to >> turn it off and not have my health be impacted by it . >> >> If anyone knows of books that combine mindful approaches with daily >> productivity, I would be interested in hearing about them. ( if you feel >> like it, copy your response to [email protected] :). >> >> The book that is completely changing my life right now, though it might >> not be a good fit for many of you :-) Is, "The Life-Changing Magic of >> Tidying up " . (People's can poo-poo it all they want, and they do, but >> it's going across the world like wildfire, and for a reason :-) >> >> It's this short, poorly organized and not particularly well-written, >> translation of a Japanese book that is ostensibly about deciding what items >> in your house you would like to keep because they are joyful/appreciated, >> and seems like just another twist on other organizing methods, that instead >> has hidden in it a gem of a process that has clarified what's been missing >> for me for 25 years in how I deal with my belongings and is now changing >> how I see my actions through the day and even my life perspective a >> little. (Sidenote:it doesn't seem like it makes a lot of sense, it appeals >> more to women than men, and it doesn't work well IMO unless it's embraced >> as is rather than being analyzed to death and tweaked, all probably making >> it a poor fit for most of this list :-) >> >> I haven't yet gotten to the point of applying this process to my task >> list, but it's going to take a while and probably be quite amazing and >> freeing. I have thousands of "aspirational" tasks collected over the years >> (just as I've collected aspirational clutter – that stuff that reminds me >> of actions I wanted to take but never got to and now have become guilt) >> that are sitting in MLO and weighing me down. (many of them captured from >> my brain using GTD but then never let go of because I was so running around >> trying to do the tasks that I never did a review process consistently , but >> also from time management books that encourage keeping of everything in >> your system, but never say to let it go - "just move it to a someday list" >> :-) . It will be interesting to see what kind of the task management >> solution I end up with in MLO when I'm done. I wouldn't be at all surprised >> to see a book come out of it but it might be a few years . … >> >> Lisa, who has pretty much abandoned you all due to health issues but >> getting better slowly >> On Jul 24, 2015 6:06 AM, "John Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> >>> What do you make of this interesting article? >>> >>> http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/productive-people-do-nothing/1107640/ >>> >>> Apparently the key to productivity is not blasting through (endless) >>> to-do lists flat out, nope - not even nicely prioritized ones. No, >>> according to David Allen the trick is to create enough 'space' in your mind >>> in order to think clearly. The way to do this can be either to deliberately >>> put stuff off or to deliberately not do most of the stuff on your list at >>> all. >>> >>> I think the title is slightly disingenuous - highly productive people >>> don't JUST sit around "doing nothing", but nonetheless spending a >>> significant amount of time doing nothing is extremely important nonetheless >>> to one's overall productivity. >>> >>> Food for thought, no? >>> >>> John >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/b15bdd39-4785-421f-8ac3-2a1489c501a1%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/b15bdd39-4785-421f-8ac3-2a1489c501a1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/4dd0f3b4-b209-4e3b-bc2b-32f9b858192f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/4dd0f3b4-b209-4e3b-bc2b-32f9b858192f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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