{"id":16774,"date":"2018-05-04T07:44:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/?p=16774"},"modified":"2018-05-04T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:44:13","slug":"gtd-and-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2018\/05\/gtd-and-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"GTD and stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you unhook from the pulls and pressures of your world? It would be nice if you could just shut your door, or go into the garden, and the harpies in your mind\u2014all the niggling things to do and deal with\u2014just went away. Or, if you could just finally get it all done, so there was nothing left to contend with. Neither is likely to happen.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blake-meyer-336619-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blake-meyer-336619-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blake-meyer-336619-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blake-meyer-336619-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your freedom will not come from trying to ignore all the \u201cstuff\u201d or by trying to complete everything\u2014it requires truly detaching from it. But how do you do that? By getting it all out of your head, and reflecting on it all, appropriately.<br \/>\n\u2013David Allen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you unhook from the pulls and pressures of your world? It would be nice if you could just shut your door, or go into the garden, and the harpies in your mind\u2014all the niggling things to do and deal with\u2014just went away. 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