I have to say that I find all these people who obsess on the net about life improvement slightly unsettling. What is wrong with piles of stuff for example? or indeed, clutter - just because some people don't like it, does not mean that it is necessarily indicative of being a bad person. I find anal tidyness weird and unhealthy, but you seem to not to be allowed to say that, just as you are not allowed to say that a lot of the GTD has all the manifestations of a cult : I got flamed horrendously by someone for suggesting that.
i was sad when i learned that lifehacker was mostly about self improvement and not about lucid dreaming, or how to eat for free by dumpster diving. those are real "life hacks".
john
GTD = Getting Things Done - a book and a system by David Allen which aims to increase productivity and reduce "stuff". I am thinking of starting another movement - GTS - Getting Things Started or more realistically GOYFAASSTI - Get off your fat arse and stop surfing the internet (Copyright 2006 thumbrella productions)
Gary
I will agree that some people obsess so much over how to get things<br /> done that all they end up doing is putting off not actually getting<br /> anything done, if you know what I mean.
Brett
Hurrah for clutter! This obsession with minimalist homes that indicate nothing of the personality or interests of the person living there are sterile, uninteresting and unhealthy.
Westpondia, here. GTD?
john Weeks
It's easier to talk about 'GTD' than to talk about the quality of the things themselves.<br><br>I propose 'GDTs' as a counter-cult.
JP
I can't believe humans were meant to live this way, in piles of things: <br><br><a href="http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/5950773/detail.html">http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/5950773/detail.html</a><br><br>The word I know for this dysfunction is "affluenza." <br><br><a href="http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/affluenza.html">http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/affluenza.html</a>
Nita
The GTD system is good for those that are seemingly swamped under stuff to do but considering it basically amounts 1) Write stuff down and 2) decide what needs doing next people do seem go totally overboard about it. <div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>I do fantasize about having one of those minimilist homes but i have far too much crap for it to work, especially books. Why do those minimalist homes always seem to have a waffer thin 60" TFT telly but no books?</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>On the other hand the lifestyle gf/wife that seems to go with those kind of homes is always very pretty.</div>
G
I found GTD to be somewhat helpful as far as that goes, but I'm with the ancient Greeks as far as words to live by go: Know thyself, and nothing too much (including moderation).
The piles on my desk have nothing to do with affluenza! I had affluenza the piles would have very different content indeed!
Lindsay