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In this week’s episode, what’s the best way to manage projects?
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Script | 359
Hello, and welcome to episode 359 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.
From time to time, something comes along that sounds great when first described but then turns nasty.
In the productivity world, that something is Getting Things Done and in particular the definition of what a project is.
This is not the fault of David Allen, Getting Things Done’s author; this is how his description of a project has been horribly misinterpreted.
At its essence, Getting Things Done is about categorising your work into contexts. That could be work you can do on your computer or phone. In your office or at home. It is, and never was about “projects”. Projects, at best, are a sideshow. A simple way to organise your work. Nothing more.
Yet for some reason, a few early readers misunderstood GTD, wrote about it and now there’s a whole generation of people believing anything that involves two steps or more is a project and must be organised as such.
And there, is the source of overwhelm, time was
