Getting Things Dumped: A First Principle in GTD

Andre Kibbe from Tools for Thought is simply one of my favorite Personal Development slash Productivity slash GTD writers. Here’s him on the “stress” provoked by having too many things to do:

The stress of heavy workloads doesn’t come from having too many things to do. We can all think of infinitely more worthy things to do that we’re not doing than think of the few things we are doing. If that was really the source of anxiety, every person on the planet would be in a permanent existential crisis. On the contrary. At any given moment, we have one of two choices: we can feel bad about all of the tasks we aren’t doing, or we can feel good about having made the right choice of the one task we are doing.