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    GTD Cafe: How Doing Nothing Might Really be Something

    November 19th, 2008 by thedailysaint

    Posted in GTD |

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    Connect with Stephen at LinkedIn - Click hereProductivity Tools and DIY Calendars - Click hereI am a small business Conversation Consultant and public speaker that uses the power of the internet to leverage your success. Productivity in Context is a web magazine focused on Productivity and tools for organizing. Make this your headquarters for improving your life and work through increased mindfulness, education, and workflow practices.

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    Today’s post is from Mike St. Pierre of The Daily Saint

    Let’s focus on the importance of slowing down. Here’s why: personal productivity and the art of work/life balance depends on a healthy dose of doing nothing. I don’t mean the kind of lazy spirit that many aspire to but rather a degree of stepping back to focus on what’s important.  From a GTD perspective, slowing down can make a lot of sense- if you know what you don’t have to do at this instant, relaxing becomes all the more tangible.

    Fridays are great for looking back and taking stock of how things went in the past week. A Friday is also perfect for evaluating motives behind how we spend our time. Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, has this to say,

    If tomorrow, you arrived at work and didn’t get a cup of coffee…didn’t get on the Internet…didn’t talk to your friend…didn’t get your new blog postings…didn’t get sucked into email for 90 minutes…what could you use that energy on instead that will made you proud and give you a boost of satisfaction for the entire day?

    So let’s make some time between now and Friday to slow down and enjoy some moments of calm. That may mean doing something of high value or heck, it might mean doing nothing at all. Sometimes blocking out the noise, interruptions, and time wasters is victory in an of itself.

    Quote for the Road: “Peace is the tranquility of order.” St. Augustine

    If you found this post useful, please share it with your friends on Twitter using the tinylink http://tinyurl.com/6dgqwe. Thanks, I appreciate it! Feel free to comment below, I enjoy discussing these ideas. ~@Stephen


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