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A few weeks ago, I started implementing the Getting Things Done<\/a> Method. The basic premise: get everything out of your head and organized so you can have a clear mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got the “emptying my head” part down. Every time I had a thought or to-do item, I wrote it in what David Allen calls a capture list<\/em>. But then, you clear out and organize the list every few days. Instead, I let it pile up for weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I kept delaying organizing my capture list. I wasn\u2019t sure I knew how to organize it. Surely, I must read Getting Things Done <\/a>entirely. Only then can I properly go through my capture list! Otherwise, how will I know what to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more the list piled up the more anxious I got. Finally, I realized the list had gotten so long, that the idea of going through it was majorly uncomfortable. And what a good opportunity for a discomfort challenge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My plan was to go through the list top to bottom and clear it out. No skipping around. Just quickly go through the list in order. I had a two minute virtual timer to keep me from spending more than two minutes on any item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew I wasn\u2019t organizing it in exactly the manner the book suggests. But better to do something wrong than not do it at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do Anything and The Trap of Discomfortception<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Doing something wrong trumps doing nothing because it builds context. If I do something the wrong way now, I\u2019ll get experience learning how and why it\u2019s not ideal. Which will give me context for how and why to do it the right way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you still get the benefits of learning how to do some of it correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I expected the task to take hours and hours. But it only took an hour. And I spent so much time feeling dread over dreading the hours and hours. This is the trap of discomfortception: The discomfort you feel about the discomfort you expect to feel in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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