“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad” - Miles Kington

Until now I’ve always thought that keeping things simple* is one of the best principles in life. But, I’ve read yet another brilliant blog post from Zen Habits and I’ve realize that what I was looking for was purity and not simplicity.

*) Simple as in easy to understand/summarize/user and not as in stupid.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. - Mahatma Gandhi

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You Get What You Expect.

Author Roger von Oech describes this phenomenon as the self-fulfilling prophecy, where a person believes something to be true which may or may not be so, acts on that belief, and by his actions causes the belief to become true. The self-fulfilling prophecy is a case where the world of thought overlaps with the world of action. And it happens in all avenues of life.

I’ve been using GTD for some time now and after failing couple of times I’ve decided to find the reason why: am I lazy, unorganised or I was simply not getting it?

My conclusion was that although the system is very good, it forces you to adopt all its principles at once - and that is a wrong.

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been using a variant of GTD, ZTD which proved to be brilliant. Here are couple of things that are different:

• One habit at a time
• Focus on doing
•  You can’t do everything in one day and there is no need to know about everything (as long it is in a trusted system)

Give it a go… you might find it useful!