After completing Getting Things Done, there are probably two things that stayed with me more than anything else. The first was the process of project planning. Since I am involved with lots of projects, it helped to see in black and white the process I already follow and to also have someone else say "it works!" One of the things Allen says about project planning is that if you get bogged down in project planning, its because you have failed to follow the steps in the correct order. You can't brainstorm, for example, until you have claried the goal or the objective. Once you have clearly identified your goal, then you can go about making it happen by brainstorming and then identifiying the next action to take. Allen says we don't organize projects, we organize the next action.
Another highlight of this book for me personally was the "two minute" idea. If, while you are processing "open loops," or unfinished "stuff," you come across things that can be done in two minutes of less...DO THEM. Do not place them on a list or put them in the "in basket." Simply do them then. For those of us who like lists, we would probably go ahead and put them on our list and then do them in that two minutes just so we can mark through them!
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