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Don't totally understand NAs
mream | Mar 14 2006
I'm new to GTD. Just read the book over the weekend, and spent today collecting and beginning to process. There is still something I don't understand about next actions. Let's say I have a list of 50 projects, and I go through each one and decide what the next physical action is... am I going to end up with a list of 50 actions, work through those, then generate 50 more? Would I be kind of spinning my wheels as I rotate through all 50 projects, rather than focusing on one, and doing more actions on that one? Or am I missing something? When I list NAs, should I list all the NAs I can do on a specific project? Thanks for the help, Matt 16 Comments
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 Thanks. So do you generate...Submitted by Berko on March 14, 2006 - 9:56am.
mream wrote:
Thanks. So do you generate all the possible NAs for a particular project? Or do you put one NA per project on your list for that week? I think this depends on how your mind works and what it takes for you to have a clear picture of what you're doing. I tend to generate 5-10 NAs at a time to give me an idea of where I'm headed. If it's something really foreign, I try to generate NAs through completion, but interspersed throughout that list of NAs are actions that say something like "Evaluate action list." While this is usually accomplished at the weekly review, if you are concerned about keeping focus and direction on a particular project, then I think this can be helpful. » POSTED IN:
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