{"id":5119,"date":"2011-07-05T12:12:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T19:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/2011\/07\/05\/"},"modified":"2014-07-25T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T00:02:31","slug":"the-feeling-of-never-ending-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2011\/07\/the-feeling-of-never-ending-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"The feeling of never-ending lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro from Brazil wrote:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2011\/07\/freedom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5121 alignright\" title=\"FREEDOM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2011\/07\/freedom-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question: <\/strong>Since I&#8217;m always completing &#8220;old&#8221; tasks and &#8220;generating&#8221; new tasks, my &#8220;list&#8221; ALWAYS has tasks to be completed. GTD is nice because you can see all task and never lose track of anything, but on the other hand it&#8217;s weird because it gives me the feeling that it never ends!<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Allen: <\/strong>The answer to your question is very simple: you&#8217;re never finished until you&#8217;re dead (if even then, on other levels of our existence).  The essence of GTD is to get yourself &#8220;in the driver&#8217;s seat&#8221; about what you&#8217;re doing, and want and need to do. It&#8217;s not about finishing everything. You don&#8217;t have to finish something to be free of it. You simply need to decide what it means to you, park the outcomes and actions in the appropriate places that you trust will be reviewed   at the right time&#8230; and you&#8217;re free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro from Brazil wrote: Question: Since I&#8217;m always completing &#8220;old&#8221; tasks and &#8220;generating&#8221; new tasks, my &#8220;list&#8221; ALWAYS has tasks to be completed. GTD is nice because you can see all task and never lose track of anything, but on the other hand it&#8217;s weird because it gives me the feeling that it never ends! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2011\/07\/the-feeling-of-never-ending-lists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The feeling of never-ending 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