{"id":13009,"date":"2015-05-27T13:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/?p=13009"},"modified":"2025-05-10T07:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:37:08","slug":"podcast-03-david-allen-guides-you-through-a-mind-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2015\/05\/podcast-03-david-allen-guides-you-through-a-mind-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #3 &#8211; David Allen guides you through a Mind Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GTD Mind Sweep is one of the core practices in the Getting Things Done methodology for experiencing stress-free productivity.\u00a0Get out your note-taking devices as David Allen guides you through a Mind Sweep session to capture what&#8217;s grabbing your attention. We guarantee that you&#8217;ll have at least one valuable &#8220;Oh, yeah! That reminds me&#8230;&#8221; thought during this episode!<\/p>\n<h2>Listen Now<\/h2>\n<div id=\"video-container\"><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3579672\/height\/360\/width\/640\/theme\/standard\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did you get value from this process? Live Guided Mind Sweep webinars are offered every month on <a href=\"https:\/\/gtdconnect.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GTD Connect<\/a>. You&#8217;ll also find Mind Sweep trigger lists in the <em>Getting Things Done<\/em> book and in our <a href=\"https:\/\/store.gettingthingsdone.com\/GTD-Methodology-Guides-p\/40102.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GTD Methodology Guides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Subscribe or Download<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/getthing-things-done\/id999098861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/s?fid=66868&amp;refid=stpr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stitcher<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Libsyn<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/If5n66lnvvompn4q7yqu4cqxax4?t=Getting_Things_Done\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Play Music<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/21mSaFgOhfR7TT8MKxF41n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-697578497\/tracks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoundCloud<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Podcast Transcript<\/h2>\n<p>DAVID ALLEN: For those of you who may not be that familiar with the GTD and you\u2019re a new member here to GTD Connect and you\u2019re not that familiar or haven\u2019t done a whole lot of Mind Sweeping for yourself personally yet, this is basically \u2013 the idea here is simply to empty what we call psychic ram, you know, that short-term memory space that\u2019s hanging on to, \u201cOh I need to \u2026 would \u2026 could \u2013 oh I got to \u2026 Oh that\u2019s right, I need to \u2026\u201d whatevers. And some basic ground rules here or some guidelines to get the most value out of this, what you don\u2019t want to do is stop and think about what you\u2019re thinking about, you just want to write it down. So nobody\u2019s looking, unless somebody\u2019s watching you do this right now, so you know, be totally honest and candid with yourself. You have the total freedom to wad up the piece of paper and throw it away after you finish it, so this is not \u2013 this is not to analyze your commitment, this is just to capture the things that you might have attention on.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to think about this is just \u2013 what do you have attention on? What has potential meaning for you? I know this morning, actually last night as I was walking back to my cottage at home I just noticed three of my yard lights, my little halogen lights you know, the outside lights were out. And I went, \u201cOh God!\u201d I mean, that\u2019s one of those things, so easy for me to go, \u201cI\u2019ll remember that.\u201d Right. As soon as I get into the house, I\u2019ve then forgotten it and then the next, you know, \u2018til \u2013 whatever. But I remember this time and I walked in and I got, you know, a nice little hat sized pad, you know, right by the phone that I can just walk in and write on. Kathryn and I are often \u2013 we see each other running over and writing stuff on the pad, much like that, and then tearing the pad off and so I actually replaced the lights this morning. Yeah! Good for me!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, don\u2019t want to bore you with the details of my life. Let\u2019s get into it.<\/p>\n<p>So the whole idea here: Is anything on your mind? Some of you probably started already. Just write it down \u2013 Cat food. Oh yeah, I need to call Aunt Susie. Oh yeah, dah \u2013 dah \u2013 dah \u2013 dah \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Now what I\u2019m going to do is be both helpful and bothersome. I\u2019m going to actually call out in auditory form, I\u2019m going to sort of give you triggers of stuff that might trigger some things, \u2018cause sometimes it\u2019s helpful to, you know, kind of stir the dust inside your head and have me or somebody remind you about things. You go, \u201cOh yeah!\u201d That might help.<\/p>\n<p>The reason it\u2019s bothersome is you get on a roll here and then you hear me jabbering and you still want to keep going with your own roll. So I suggest, just keep going with your own roll and listen to me with half an ear, see if that triggers anything. If you start to slow down a little bit, then come back and listen to whatever I may be mentioning. So that\u2019s the game.<\/p>\n<p>So if you haven\u2019t started already, just grab all the top of mind stuff, anything top of mind. Now, one other \u2013 just a little caveat here, if those of you who are old GTD, you know old-timer GTD implementers, if this is already in your system, if whatever it is that\u2019s on your mind or that pops into your head, you absolutely know you have there, then sure, you probably don\u2019t need to write it down, but be cautious about that, because if it pops into your head at all, meaning there\u2019s probably something that might not be on cruise control about it, so when in doubt, write it down. You can always scratch it out later if you realize you over-captured, but much better to over-capture. So this is not to organize, not to analyze, just grab them as fast as you can, \u2018cause you see once you pull the plug, these things start to roll and they\u2019ll be associating in your mind, lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>So first of all, top of mind stuff \u2013 what\u2019s on your mind? What do you have to do today that may not be captured yet? What\u2019s up for you? Just jot it down. Abbreviate, write fast.<\/p>\n<p>You might want to think about what just happened yesterday or the last couple of days, meetings, conversations, uh stop you in the hall stuff, things that have shown up in the mail, voice mails you\u2019ve gotten, e-mails that you know, yanked your chain and that you haven\u2019t been able to do anything or think through yet, but you know you need to.<\/p>\n<p>While you\u2019re doing this, if any of you have access to your calendars or diaries, it\u2019s not a bad idea to pull that out and glance. You know, part of the weekly review, which is a great thing to do that I \u2013 always saves my life is a backward look for a week or two, just quickly stand back and catch all the \u2013 oh that reminds me. If you look back, I\u2019ll be willing to bet you that you\u2019ll see something back there in terms of meetings or things you had on your calendar that may, you know, bounce some uh \u2013 some stuff out of your head that you need to grab.<\/p>\n<p>Same thing with going forward, especially this next upcoming week or two, events, presentations, family stuff coming up. Speaking of which any summerizing things and that\u2019s with an \u201ce-r\u201d, not an \u201ca-r\u201d, on your mind, unless you\u2019re down-under and it\u2019s winterize. What\u2019s up for this season, could be a lot of you in the Northern hemisphere anyway, this is vacation time.<\/p>\n<p>Anything about vacation, planning, family, social events, nitty-gritty work stuff, projects \u2013 projects that have emerged that you haven\u2019t identified as such yet.<\/p>\n<p>Anything on your mind that you call a problem right now that you need to grab to later on make a project?<\/p>\n<p>Real good idea to do a site walk-around in your mind\u2019s eye. So if you are in your office right now, look around. Anything on the tables, on the desk, on the side bar credenzas, your in-baskets, your pending areas? Anything representing new stuff that\u2019s shown up, you\u2019ve haven\u2019t had a chance to identify yet as something you need to do something about.<\/p>\n<p>And in your mind\u2019s eye, you might want to walk around, if you do during the week go to a regular type of office and regular type of office building and have staff around you and other people around you, just go there quickly in your mind\u2019s eye. What about that? Anything that reminds you about meetings, people, projects, problems, situations, opportunities that are up and haven\u2019t been caught yet.<\/p>\n<p>You might do the same around your home\/house. If you\u2019re there, you might want to look around just in your mind, even what you can\u2019t see and also what you can, any projects, pipes need fixing, spackle needs spackling. Any new equipment changes, clean up, fix, re-do, projects in the yard, if you have one. And of course, a great trigger is just people. Who are all the people in your life right now? What comes to mind? Anybody you have attention on? Conversations you need to have\/want to have.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, this is \u2013 particularly for those of you who are familiar with Mind Sweeps, I\u2019m going to lift up to what I call 20,000 feet, because often times the areas of focus and responsibility that we refer to, sometimes gets into subtler stuff that may be still on your mind, just a little \u2013 not quite as easy to grab. So for instance, 20,000 feet, let\u2019s take your job. If you\u2019re doing work, what are the four, five, six, seven things you are supposed to be handling well? First of all, is your job clear itself? Anything unclear about that, you need to grab? Things changed, things have morphed, things have shifted in the company, your responsibilities, all that clear and on cruise control yet? And whatever those areas you\u2019re responsible for, research, PR, business development stuff, sales, marketing, anything about staff, staff development, hiring, performance reviews, etcetera? Assets, quality control, tech stuff? Come performance review time what are you going to be held accountable to have done well over this period of time?<\/p>\n<p>So thinking about all that, does anything pop into your head that you haven\u2019t grabbed yet? Projects, more subtle stuff that\u2019s kind of been hanging out there, possibilities, opportunities, someday\/maybe\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>And sort of moving over to the sort of overall life areas of focus, how about your own just personal and professional development? Anything about classes; anything you\u2019re trying to learn? Anything you\u2019d like to research, get better at; anything on your mind about that? Personal finances, assets, investments, bank stuff?<\/p>\n<p>Fun? I hate to admit it, but sometimes I forget \u2013 oh yeah, fun! What are the things you like to do, anything even on your mind, you might want to \u2013 you know, concerts, subscription series, plays, you know, fun things, things to do with the family?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of family, anything about your relationships, if you haven\u2019t caught it yet; personal, direct family relationships, extended family, good friends, your network, pets (don\u2019t forget the pets).<\/p>\n<p>Your creativity, your creative expression \u2013 everything okay about that? Any classes you want to take? Things you might want to do? And how about all your gear; all your gear okay; printers, faxes, scanners, blackberries, IPhones? Are you really going to do something about the IPad or not? You know, any of that.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, if there were something that you haven\u2019t captured, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Well, it looks like not many of you have dropped off, so hopefully this wasn\u2019t too intimidating for you. You know, usually people feel a combination of grief and relief when they sit down and do these lists. Uh, but that\u2019s obviously what we work with and for those of you who are not familiar with our work-flow coaching process, that\u2019s the first thing we do, or just about the first thing we do, when I sit down to work with an executor or whoever I\u2019m coaching, is we need to get it all out. So this is stage one of how do you get things under control is first of all, you have to identify what\u2019s not on cruise control. That is the things that we have attention on. Because usually there\u2019s an inverse relationship between these things being on your mind and them actually happening. So the whole idea is to move from identifying to then getting things onto cruise control, which is where we go next about these, which are the next two phases of getting things under control, which are \u2013 okay now, now I got these out of my head, that will serve you temporarily and feels good temporarily. A lot of people \u2013 that just sort of changes their life actually. When they just get into GTD, they just get this first stage and start writing down a lot more than they ever wrote down before, sleep better, you know, able to focus better, etcetera, but then if you don\u2019t move to the next two phases of \u2013 okay, now I got to decide what exactly that means to me that I wrote down. So many times people will write down something like \u201cmom\u201d and uh, we go \u201cYeah, well you had one, but that\u2019s not just historical data, why did you write it down?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh yeah.\u201d So now we have to go through the \u2013 okay, do you really want to get this onto cruise control? It\u2019ll suck right back up into your mind again and you\u2019ll start to resist looking at your lists simply because there\u2019s more thinking to be done, so the more thinking to be done is phase two and phase three, what we call processing or clarifying what exactly these things mean to you that you got out of your head and then stage three is now organizing the results of that.<\/p>\n<p>So when I think through \u201cmom\u201d what is the outcome that I\u2019m wanting to achieve there? And you\u2019ll see Kelly\u2019s put the \u2013 our new work-flow diagram up on the screen so you can see these are the basic questions you just need to ask yourself. So essentially, the reason things have your attention is because you have not put sufficient attention on them. So they\u2019re kind of a paradoxical situation, but it\u2019s because you actually haven\u2019t finished your thinking about them that \u2013 that\u2019s why there\u2019s still open loops in your head and why they keep popping in there. But the mind just doesn\u2019t manage those very well, it doesn\u2019t manage them very objectively, they just tend to pop in, oftentimes based upon how much emotional content you had wrapped into it, or how recent the thing go inserted into your head. Those tend to be as they pop out. But all that\u2019s doing is just letting you know, \u201cHey dude, there\u2019s something that you still haven\u2019t thought about or decided about or really determined about this yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And these are the basic questions: What it is? You know, \u201cmom\u201d why did you write it down?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell it\u2019s her birthday\u2019s coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So great! Is it actionable? See that on the screen. Basic question; two optional answers yes or no. You gonna do something about mom or not? And sometimes that\u2019s where things get hung up right there.<\/p>\n<p>And then once you make that decision, you might say, \u201cNah, I just wish mom a happy birthday. She doesn\u2019t make a big deal out of it and you know, I send her good thoughts.\u201d So \u2013 no.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I want to put her birthday on a spread sheet where I\u2019m keeping track of birthdays, so it\u2019ll become a piece of reference. Or maybe it\u2019s incubate. Maybe her birthday\u2019s not coming up for another six weeks. You don\u2019t want to decide yet, then you say, \u201cHmm, you know, let me think that \u2013 I\u2019ll just kind of sleep on that for a couple of weeks. That\u2019ll give me still plenty of time to do something about it.\u201d So then you can put a trigger in your calendar or in a tickler file and then come back to it.<\/p>\n<p>So I doubt, you\u2019d want to trash the idea. You might say, \u201cWell just wishing her happy birthday is sufficient\u201d and it\u2019s complete. But those are the \u2013 you know, if it\u2019s non-actionable, all those could be perfectly fine answers.<\/p>\n<p>If it is actionable, you go, \u201cOh yeah, I guess I gotta do something about mom and her birthday.\u201d Then, there\u2019s two questions and you see them almost side bar there, you see that there\u2019s a little dotted line that goes up to the left called \u201cWhat\u2019s the desired outcome?\u201d That means that there\u2019s more than one step to this. If you say, \u201cLook, all I just want to do is I\u2019m gonna call mom and leave her a message and wish her a happy birthday\u201d and you can do that in two minutes, well that\u2019s just not a multi-step thing, that\u2019s just \u2013 okay that\u2019s the next action. It\u2019s called \u201cmom\u201d, you can do it in two minutes, so that would fit in the two-minute rule that you see down there under do it, so you can just do that.<\/p>\n<p>If likely, that kind of scenario, you say, \u201cNah, we need to give mom a birthday party.\u201d Or perhaps it\u2019s like I need to look into whether my sister and I really want to do this or not for her. Then that might be what I call R&amp;B, that\u2019s my shorthand for look into project. But anyway, that would be a desired outcome, which you\u2019d see if I\u2019d say, \u201cYes, gonna \u2013 either I\u2019m gonna give mom a birthday party or I\u2019m gonna research it.\u201d Now you have a project. You see that arrow going over to the left? And that becomes a project. That\u2019s a stake in the ground you need to park somewhere and then keep reminding yourself that you have that commitment now to get that done. So you know, it gets back to the simplicity of Getting Things Done is defining what \u201cdone\u201d means. Well, what does done mean about mom and birthday? Is it just that you researched it to make a go or no-go decision or you\u2019ve actually celebrated her birthday? In either case, that would go on your project list and, of course, tied very directly to that, is \u201cWhat\u2019s the next action?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then the next action might be: \u201cAh, you know, I guess I got to call my sister and see \u2013 let\u2019s chat about what mom might want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFabulous! Can you call your sister and do that in two minutes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, probably not, if she answered the phone, we\u2019d probably be on the phone a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat! Can you delegate that to somebody?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably not.\u201d So that means I need to defer it. You see that as the third bubble up to the left there. Okay, now I need to park that. I need to call sis, can\u2019t do it right now or I don\u2019t want to do it right now and I need to park that, in which case, if you say, \u201cHmm, well if I only can call sis on Saturday or that\u2019s the time I could probably reach her.\u201d, then you might want to put it on Saturday\u2019s calendar, so you don\u2019t need to think about it, but on Saturday, that\u2019s just something to do that day and you\u2019re gonna do that on Saturday, you could park it there. Or if you said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m just gonna call my sister as soon as I can, in and around all the other stuff I need to do, that\u2019s where you would defer it to your next action list, where you put it down. You see a little \u201ca\u201d there for the action list, that would go on a calls list or wherever you wanted to keep track of that kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Basically if you\u2019ve done all that, you\u2019ve made those decisions, parked them somewhere and then of course, what we can\u2019t handle on the phone here is then making sure you have some regular review you trust then that where you park these things, you\u2019re actually going to engage with appropriately. You\u2019re gonna look at that project list and see mom\u2019s birthday coming toward you frequently enough to make sure it doesn\u2019t slip and you\u2019re gonna see the reminder to make the phone call in some appropriate time and place so you can do that in time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that\u2019s a lot said, but that\u2019s basically the simplicity of the process. This is not some sort of theoretical, \u201cGee this might work.\u201d This is literally what we spend thousands of hours with folks doing and it\u2019s what those of you familiar with GTD, you know, that\u2019s how you get your in-basket emptied. You don\u2019t have to finish mom and birthday, but you do need to clarify what exactly it means to you, what does \u201cdone\u201d mean and what does doing look like and park those things appropriately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GTD Mind Sweep is one of the core practices in the Getting Things Done methodology for experiencing stress-free productivity.\u00a0Get out your note-taking devices as David Allen guides you through a Mind Sweep session to capture what&#8217;s grabbing your attention. We guarantee that you&#8217;ll have at least one valuable &#8220;Oh, yeah! 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