destroy ambiguity, and The David's still got it
But perhaps the most significant short-term factor in ensuring consistent decision-making is increasing your discomfort with not doing it. If you raise the bar internally with how much ambiguity and lack of clarity you are willing to tolerate, you'll find it much easier (necessary, actually) to just get on with it. We spend thousands of hours holding a focus for our clients to make hundreds of thousands of decisions that have been pending in their psyche and their world—from random papers on their desk to key issues distracting their consciousness. They would not have allowed those to linger had their comfort zone not tolerated them.
I've come to think of us as living in a post-GTD era. David Allen's ideas have reached their maximum cultural spread and are decreasing in relevance as lifehackers move on to simpler, lighter (and messier) task management and productivity approaches. But this excerpt from his Productive Living newsletter shows that he's still got that intuitive understanding of the work mind.
So much of what holds me back from "getting things done" is avoiding decisions. That's why when I get stuck I think of my mantra - destroy ambiguity. I've been meaning to think of a way to explain it, but David's done a great job of explaining it for me.
