{"id":3668,"date":"2010-04-24T08:53:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T16:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2014-02-03T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:38:06","slug":"you-cant-fool-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2010\/04\/you-cant-fool-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#039;t fool your mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t fool your mind.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an expert on your current personal management system, and it knows whether you can be trusted to look at what you need to at the appropriate time.\u00a0 It knows if you&#8217;ve decided what the next action should be. And it knows if there is a reminder of that action placed somewhere you will actually look, when you could possibly take that action. If you have not done any of that, your mind won&#8217;t let it go. It can&#8217;t. It will endlessly keep trying to remind you of what to remember. The mind is a loyal and dedicated servant, but it needs to be given the jobs it does well&#8211;not the ones that it mismanages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; David Allen (from <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.davidco.com\/store\/catalog\/READY-FOR-ANYTHING-PAPERBACK-p-16174.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ready for Anything<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t fool your mind.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an expert on your current personal management system, and it knows whether you can be trusted to look at what you need to at the appropriate time.\u00a0 It knows if you&#8217;ve decided what the next action should be. 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