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20,000 ft - Areas of responsibility
feebleoreo | Dec 27 2006
I'm a recent adopter of GTD. I've been focusing solely on the project and next action level for about three months. It's been great at helping me get a lot of niggling actions and decent projects knocked out, but it hasn't helped me at all with the big life-goal kind of stuff. I decided to try out the vertical map, mimicking the one Patrick Rhone posted here some time ago. I've been going through it, and it's going pretty well. I can see how using and reviewing this can help me generate a lot of projects and actions to achieve my larger goals, but I'm stuck at the 20,000 ft level. I just don't get it. In Patrick's example, it's just a list people and what he does with them. What's the point? Does anyone have an example of what they do with this info to help them get stuff done? 5 Comments
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 The perplexing 20 000ft levelSubmitted by NurseGirl on December 28, 2006 - 9:21am.
One of the hard things with the 20 000 ft area is that 20 000 ft areas of focus/responsibilities may or may not be connected with 30 000 ft 1-2yr goals. Sometimes you have areas of focus that are just things you have to be responsible for in the present. For me, examples of things at 20 000 ft: The conference isn't part of my 1-2 year plan, or my long-term goals/vision. It's an area of responsibility that I've committed to, however, and it consists of several sub-projects (so it can't just be seen as a project). That said, some choose to disregard the level altogether. I don't know whether I've helped clarify things, or muddied the waters... » POSTED IN:
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