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Mental Health and GTD

By Chris Marsden • Dec 28th, 2006 • Category: Life, LifeHacks

I have had a couple of conversations today about mental health. Mostly about my own mental health (or lack thereof), but one of the things I realized was how much healthier I was when more strictly subscribing to my GTD system. That whole concept of a complete brain dump and putting things into a trusted system so I didn’t have to think about it anymore.

I’ve been saying I was going to do this again for a while now. It was even tentatively scheduled as a possible task for over Christmas Break, but not only have I not had time, I loaned my GTD book to Ben as he sets up office next week at the new job.

Moral(s) of the story…

  1. GTD is good for your mental health (or at least my mental health).
  2. Own multiple copies of Getting Things Done (it’s like owning multiple Bibles…it just makes sense).
  3. Never loan out your only copy of Getting Things Done unless your own GTD world (and mental health) are in perfect order.

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  1. Ben Boles on December 28th, 2006 at 4:40 pm:

    Bummer about the mental health. I’ll get it back to you as soon as possible.

  2. Matthew Cornell on December 31st, 2006 at 2:14 pm:

    Good luck with it. I’ve found GTD has helped my clients with ADD and Bipolar II.

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