Ever feel like you’re in a rut? Like you’re walking in mud and can’t get out? Adapted from the intro to chapter 14 in David Allen’s Ready for Anything:
- If you’re busy doing something and you’re getting bogged down, stop and review your plans.
- If you're planning and you get bogged down, get to a whiteboard or blank sheet of paper and do a mental core dump to get the ideas and information you may be missing.
- If you’re brainstorming or trying to think outside the box and your thinking is unclear, drop back and revisit the image of what success would look like.
- If your vision—the picture of what success would look like—is unclear, return to your purpose. Why are you doing the thing at all?
“Clarity is never found within something unclear. You must loosen your conceptual grip, let go, and lift your sights.”
Then, to get your life unstuck, you could take all that and turn it around and start from scratch:
- Purpose—why are you here?
- Vision—what does success at your purpose look like? Can you picture it?
- Dream, think—imagine the specifics of what you’re doing, how you get there. Think outside the box. Don’t leave anything out. Think you’re done? Dream some more.
- Plans—do you see any in there? Probably many plans. Write them down.
- Next, read this, while not departing from this and this and this.
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