为什么仅仅有条理还不够？
作者：David Allen
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有一天我的大脑突然灵感一闪：大多数人对 “变得有条理”比较不感冒的原因是他们缺乏正确使用工作清单的成功经验。
他们的清单之所以无效， 是因为他们试图把非常不同和相对复杂及离散的事项压缩在一起。 然后当你试图过分简化时，往往只会弄巧成拙。是的，我们会时不时因为脑中太多事而抓狂，于是“列清单”会让我们暂时解脱。可现实却是我们生活在一个非常多层面的世界，仅靠“列清单”不是一个长久之计。
大部分人坐下来列清单的时候， 他们事实上是在试图把“搞定”的5个步骤合成为一体。这5个步骤包括： 收集、理清、整理、回顾、执行。他们把事情从大脑中清理出来， 确认其意义，按照符合逻辑和某种意义的方式整理之后，立刻跳至评估每件事， 决定哪些事情最重要且需要采取行动。虽然从危机中得到缓解， 我们却只会获得短期的回报，那些未收集、未理清、未整理、隐藏着的，被低估的事情仍在隐隐折磨我们。
在多年的研究与辅导中我们发现把 “搞定” 的5个步骤按次序逐一执行才能达到最佳效果。 首先收集大脑中的每一件事情，无论事情的大小。然后评估清单上的每一件事情： 这可执行吗？如果可以， 那么想要的结果是什么？下一步行动是什么？ 接着把思考结果整理分到合适的类别。 这样做能清晰的回顾所有事项，结合所有的标准，例如时间、精力、场景、优先级等，做出最佳抉择。
自我管理很简单，但不易过于简化。
一切都应当化繁为简至恰如其分。
– Albert Einstein
Why Getting Organized Usually Hasn’t Worked
- David Allen
I had another BFO the other day (that’s a Blinding Flash
of the Obvious): one of the reasons most people are to some
degree allergic to “getting organized” is the consistent lack of success
they have experienced over the years with how they’ve approached the whole
process of to-do lists.
The reason those lists have not worked is because they
were an attempt to compress very different and relatively
sophisticated and discrete functions into one event and context. If you
try to make something too simple, it will make it seem even more complex and
difficult. Yes,we’ve all been up against the wall from time to time of too many things screaming at us in
our head, and we got
temporary relief from “making a list.” But we’re in a very different and more multifacetedworld than that band-aid can manage as anon-going procedure.
When most people sit down to write one of those lists,
they are actually trying to combine at one time all five of the phases we
have defined for mastering workflow: collect, process, organize, review, and
do. They are simultaneously attempting to grab things out of their mind,
decide what they mean, arrange them in some logical or meaningful fashion,
jumping immediately to an evaluation of each against each other and deciding
what they need to do “most importantly.” One is usually rewarded with a
short-term payoff of the crisis of confusion relieved, but left with still a
vague sense of gnawing vulnerability to what’s uncaptured, unprocessed,
unorganized, unseen, and underestimated.
We have discovered over many years of research and
coaching that these phased aspects of workflow management are optimally done as
separate activities. You need to collect everything on your mind first, little
or big. Then you need to assess each individual particle of that inventory: is
it actionable? If so, what’s the outcome? What’s the next action? You then need
to organize all the results of that thinking into appropriate categories. At
that point you can clearly review all your options of what to do, and make the
best choices, given all the criteria for making those decisions (time, energy,
context, priorities, etc.)
Managing yourself is simple, but it is not simplistic.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not
simpler.
– Albert Einstein
