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Reflection
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad” – Miles Kington
One Simple Principle to Live By: Purity
Until now I’ve always thought that keeping things simple* is one of the best principles in life. But, I’ve read yet another brilliant blog post from Zen Habits and I’ve realize that what I was looking for was purity and not simplicity.
*) Simple as in easy to understand/summarize/user and not as in stupid.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. – Mahatma Gandhi
Another excellent reflection
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You Get What You Expect.
Author Roger von Oech describes this phenomenon as the self-fulfilling prophecy, where a person believes something to be true which may or may not be so, acts on that belief, and by his actions causes the belief to become true. The self-fulfilling prophecy is a case where the world of thought overlaps with the world of action. And it happens in all avenues of life.
A silver bullet: ZTD
I’ve been using GTD for some time now and after failing couple of times I’ve decided to find the reason why: am I lazy, unorganised or I was simply not getting it?
My conclusion was that although the system is very good, it forces you to adopt all its principles at once – and that is a wrong.
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been using a variant of GTD, ZTD which proved to be brilliant. Here are couple of things that are different:
- One habit at a time
- Focus on doing
- You can’t do everything in one day and there is no need to know about everything (as long it is in a trusted system)
Give it a go… you might find it useful!
