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Merlin, I enjoy your blog...

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Merlin, I enjoy your blog...

Merlin, I enjoy your blog a lot. You can call me one of your converts. This time, I disagree with you, though. A series of targeted editions of GTD would NEVER be close to enough. I think everyone must use his/her imagination to tailor GTD. Imagination? The full power of his mind! Even if you are “some kind of manager or sales person who works mostly in an office, travels often, and has lots of scheduled appointments in a given week”, heck, even if you’re David Allen you cannot just let the book do the thinking for you. One think we all must know is that the GTD method is really hard! It’s not for the faint-hearted. Sure, a lot of copies have been sold, and yet, the ratio of “successful stories”/”copies sold” must be between 0 and 5 percent. Why? Because it must be YOU who does all the WORK! Now, who likes that?

 
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