Design a Better Life Instead of Managing a Shitty One
It's more important to design for a better life, than to try manage a shitty one.
- Don't manage what can be changed
- Have a goal, direction or purpose
No amount of organizing your life can give you that.
Find your purpose, the rest is secondary
Productivity tools can't give your life direction, meaning or purpose.
Figure out where you want to go and how you want your life to look,
the rest will sort itself out.
Task management systems help organize the items you're surrounded by.
But if you're surrounded by shit, it'd be better to figure how to
get out of it instead of spending spend your life arranging it.
Whether you use GTD or something else to do that is secondary.
"As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how.
A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is"
Substitute "comfortable" with "organised" or "productive" in the above Quote from Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harris for a concise, nice summary of the above