DA developed GTD as a system that accommodates anything and everything you throw at it, depending on how much you want to track.

I've posted on my own blog about task granularity, and I think it's really up to each individual person how many things they want to track with GTD (and the level of detail at which they'd like to track them).

Everything is an awful lot, and I mean awful in this literal sense here, but when inspired by David Allen, we all want to do everything, and we all have to learn how awful that lot can be. My experience with my clients, is that there is more and more time and energy sunk into wrestling with everything, and there is less and less time and energy sunk into doing some thing, whatever that might be. Some burn out so bad, they go back to being a disorganized mess, and if rendered to depression, do nothing. Which perhaps is worse, but there is salve in that form of grief too, something to be learned. To get up and start from such a bad place, it’s usually about doing one thing, and then perhaps a second, maybe after some essential rest. Finally, action flows more regularly. I will argue that GTD forces people to confront their own capacity for self-regulation, for choosing what matters and what doesn’t, what is a true commitment of energy and what is just a hypothetical, a fleeting want. GTD in this regard is much more about what we don’t do than what we do do, and we can be pretty simple, and should be simple about what we don’t do.

I’m thinking a lot about priorities, and GTD is helping me get stuff done so that I can make progress with the decluttering and streamlining.

I think with some of the stuff that I have to write in as a task, it is to stop myself procrastinating. Once I’ve built the habit - daily music practice, for instance - it won’t need to be there as a task.

I know I do too much, but if I give up the optional things - like writing and music - then I’m left with the mind-numbing things, like cleaning the house and doing laundry.