{"id":19646,"date":"2020-02-05T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/?p=19646"},"modified":"2020-02-18T07:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:31:19","slug":"what-have-you-done-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2020\/02\/what-have-you-done-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"What have you done lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What have you done lately?<\/p>\n

I mean, what have you actually finished, completed, and accomplished? If you haven\u2019t made a list in the last year, I would highly recommend that you take a few minutes and capture that.<\/p>\n

It has always intrigued me how much a less-than-conscious part of me can still have energy wrapped up around activities and projects, until I acknowledge that they\u2019re done, to myself. Kathryn and I have made an annual exercise, at year-end, of making the list of major completions and accomplishments. It\u2019s really quite a healthy, cleansing completion in itself. It includes everything that we can think of\u2014from projects like launching a new course, to new places visited, to family changes handled, to old business completed, to new skills and tricks learned.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve noticed that there is likely some resistance to doing that process as well. I had a client say in all sincerity that he was afraid to declare some of his projects \u201cdone.\u201d (I mean, what if they weren\u2019t perfect yet?!)<\/p>\n

I suggest you give yourself a treat and review the year that just passed and look forward to the year ahead.<\/p>\n

Celebrate any progress. Don\u2019t wait to get perfect.<\/em>
\n\u2014Ann McGee Cooper<\/p>\n

This essay appeared in David Allen\u2019s Productive Living Newsletter. Subscribe for free here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What have you done lately? I mean, what have you actually finished, completed, and accomplished? If you haven\u2019t made a list in the last year, I would highly recommend that you take a few minutes and capture that. It has always intrigued me how much a less-than-conscious part of me can still have energy wrapped … <\/p>\n

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