Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles Steven Pressfield
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About This Book
What keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? Why is there a naysayer within? How can we avoid the roadblocks of any creative endeavor – be it starting up a dream business venture, writing a novel, or painting a masterpiece?
The War of Art emphasizes the resolve needed to recognize and overcome the obstacles of ambition and then effectively shows how to reach the highest level of creative discipline. Think of it as though love… for yourself.
Learning from GTD Methodology system will take you from “Hope it’s right” status to “Trust it’s right” status.
• Hope it’s right.
I am driven by the latest and loudest, unsure about what I’m doing, unaware of what I’m not doing. My inventory of actions is incomplete and out of date. My intuition is inaccessible.
• Trust it’s right.
I trust my judgment because my inventory of actions is complete and current, and my horizons of focus are in focus and integrated. My intuition is in play, vision sharp, decisions clear, and psyche relaxed. And this leads to more energy, clarity, expansion, exploration, and expression.
GTD Workflow Map
The GTD Methodology systematically keeps you in control, relaxed, focused, and inspired.
Watch this, then you will know how gaining control and perspective are the two key elements to self-management in life and in work.
• Control means taking charge of your everyday commitments.
• Perspective means knowing where to place these commitments on the horizons of your goals and aspirations.
You often forget to do things.
Big tasks overwhelm you.
Your mind feels cluttered.
Watch this, then
Your mind is clear.
You’re knocking out tasks one at a time.
1. Collect everything you have to do in one place. This is a big brain dump where you can write down any task that comes to mind.
• Whenever you think of something you have to do, don’t store it in your prefrontal cortex. Write it down. We call this your inbox.
2. Put things from your inbox into a place where you know you will look at, at the right time.
• This might be your calendar, a shopping list, or a project folder.
You are lost in your inbox.
You spend hours looking for messages and a mess of folders.
Watch this, then
Your inbox is always empty.
You could have more time to focus on the important stuff, instead of email.
A different way to manage your email is zero messages in your inbox.
How it works?