If your time really were money, would you be investing it in your current activities? What activities would you invest in to get the greatest return?

Maximize Your Priorities
By Brian Tracy

Perhaps the greatest single problem that people have today is "time poverty." Working people have too much to do and too little time. Most people feel overwhelmed with responsibilities and activities, and the harder they work, the further behind they fall. This sense of being on a never-ending treadmill can cause you to fall into the "reactive/responsive" mode of living. That is, instead of clearly deciding what you want to do, you continually react to what is happening around you. Pretty soon, you lose all sense of control. You feel that your life is running you, rather than that you are running your life.

Do you control your list or does your list control you? If you're like most people, you find yourself spending hours organizing and keeping track of the things that need to be done.

If organizing is so simple, why don't more people do it effectively? There are many reasons that people become disorganized. Often, the problem starts small, then, snowballs until it is totally out of control. Most Executive Organizers agree that even though the cause may be very complex, the solution is for everything to have it's place. The method that you are about to learn will organize your task list just as you would your office or sock drawer for that matter. We will put everything in it's proper place.

Whether by accident or research, David Allen tapped into powerful forces in Getting Things Done. There is new research that puts a name to the phenomenon that he discovered. It's called Distributed Cognition, and it is the key to extending your productivity beyond your brain's natural ability.