Got an interesting reply to the last post. Here it is:
I concur with you, Suzanne, that the Psychology Today article shed a clear light on a very effective "getting things done" method.
The author, Heidi Grant Halvorstan, is a research psychologist. She has a new book on findings related to goals, setting and attaining.
It is easy to miss the very subtle power of the if-then solution. David Allen, the Getting Things Done productivity guru, makes the same point in his critique of "to do lists," which are generally a accumulations of "amorphous blobs of undoability."
The if-then solution works if we break the "if" down into a specific situation or and exact time/date and we break the "then" down to a specific action.
Oh, but how reluctant we are to take these steps.
Dan Damerville
Professor, English
Communications and Humanities Division
Tallahassee Community College
I concur with you, Suzanne, that the Psychology Today article shed a clear light on a very effective "getting things done" method.
The author, Heidi Grant Halvorstan, is a research psychologist. She has a new book on findings related to goals, setting and attaining.
It is easy to miss the very subtle power of the if-then solution. David Allen, the Getting Things Done productivity guru, makes the same point in his critique of "to do lists," which are generally a accumulations of "amorphous blobs of undoability."
The if-then solution works if we break the "if" down into a specific situation or and exact time/date and we break the "then" down to a specific action.
Oh, but how reluctant we are to take these steps.
Dan Damerville
Professor, English
Communications and Humanities Division
Tallahassee Community College
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