Getting Things Done Organizing “Waiting For” Manage the commitments of others before their avoidance creates a crisis. Like reminders of the actions you need to do, reminders of all the things that you’re [...]

Getting Things Done Organizing Action Reminders  If you’ve emptied your in-tray, you’ll have created a stack of Pending reminders for yourself, representing longer-than-two-minute actions that cannot be delegated to someone else. [...]

Getting Things Done Once You Decide What the Action Step Is  You have three options once you decide what the next action really is: Do it(if the action takes less than [...]

Getting Things Done Incubate There will probably be things in your in-tray about which you will say to yourself, “There’s nothing to do on this now, but there might be later.” [...]

Getting Things Done Clarifying: Getting “In” to Empty Assuming that you  have collected everything that has your attention, your job now is to actually get to the bottom of “in.” Getting [...]

Getting Things Done Capturing: Corralling Your “Stuff” This chapter will lead you in more detail through the process of getting all your incompletes, all your “stuff,” into one place—into “in.” That’s [...]

Getting Things Done Gathering 100 Percent of the “Incompletes” In order to eliminate “holes in your bucket,” you need to collect and gather placeholders for, or representations of, all the things [...]

Getting Things Done Getting Control of Your Life: The Five Steps of Mastering Workflow We (1)capture what has our attention; (2)clarify what each item means and what to do about it; [...]