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Higher Level Open Loops
andyc | Nov 23 2006
Folks Thanks to Merlin's Podcasts, I've finally realized why I've been procastinating all over the place for the last few months. The runway is sorted. The process works pretty well down there. Somewhere between there and 40,000 feet it all goes wrong. It doesn't help that the company I work for got acquired this year. I know what job I'm going to be doing, but there's a lot of paperwork to be done before it happens. But the change of role brings lots of 10, 20 and 30,000 feet questions up. I don't even know what the questions are, let alone the answers. Does anyone have any good triggers for questions to ask, and thought processes, at the higher levels? 13 Comments
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 Other higher-level books?Submitted by Flexiblefine on November 30, 2006 - 10:54am.
pooks;6917 wrote: Another one that is recommended a lot is WISHCRAFT by Barbara Sher. I'm currently reading Your Best Year Yet by Jinny Ditzler, and I'm sure there are other books that would help me get through the process of figuring out what I want and writing it down so I might do something about it. On those kinds of important levels, I've been living on auto-pilot for about 20 years. Things have worked out well for me, but I've been doing it one step at a time, looking at my feet instead of the horizon. (1-2 year goals? I don't even have plans for next month!) I may now be having one of those convergence moments where many things point in one direction -- and for me that direction is learning how to be in command of my own life again. In one of the Productive Talk podcasts, David Allen mentions The War of Art and says that one of the lessons in the book is that we procrastinate the most about things that are closest to our heart's desire. I've been doing GTD at the lower levels for a couple of years now, but I'm sure I still have lots of open loops at high levels. Having those open loops encourages procrastination, and I'm also procrastinating on acknowledging those open loops so I can do something about them. Does anyone have any recommendations for books or other resources I might use to help get me through a good higher-level review, analysis, brain dump, etc.? » POSTED IN:
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