One of the key things that David Allen’s model has for items that you really don’t need to do right away is to put it on a “Some Day Maybe List.”
I wasn’t so sure about this list, but after I did a big collection it was evident that I had these types of items on my To Do List (waiting for next action assignment). It was refreshing to move them off that “critical” list to something I could review periodically.
It also had another benefit. It use to bother me a great deal when something would pop up as crisis item #1 (do right now) that I had thought was something I should do in the future but hadn’t really categorized it.
Over the last week or so, several of these items that had been categorized as Some Day Maybe became Priority #1. But instead of getting worked up over it, I just calmly dragged the item from one folder in Outlook to another, and added some next actions, and then started working on them.
Very neat … having things captured and then categorized was a big stress reducer.
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