+++ title = “06” date = 2019 +++ The Limitations of Task Managers I’ve written many articles about how to manage tasks, or at least how I manage tasks. There are so many different systems with which one can wrangle their tasks together, though I find David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology to be the most inclusive and most customizable. If GTD is a technology, then perhaps it has the most “switches” and “settings.

Zazen, meditation, mindfulness, yoga… take your pick. Every one of these arts has a component of thought observation: the mind must observe itself. It’s a meta-cognitive struggle that startles you the first time you try it. And that’s the thing – you have to choose to try it. Observing your thoughts is not instinctive. We’re supposed to worry, dwell, and be anxious so that our amygdala can protect this from threats.

I found it on Amazon for $50. It was a cool looking one that seems to stick on a wall. It was a little bit for me – I had a stack of CDs from High School that my parents had kept at their house until recently. It felt nice to pull from a CD wallet instead of going on Spotify or some other app and letting its algorithm influence my choice of what to listen to.

+++ title = “06” date = 2019 +++ Take a journey. Long or short, internal or external. Exhale slowly while humming. Eat a vegetable in slow motion. Stretch hamstrings and glutes for longer than 20 seconds. Watch water boil/flow/drip. A tap or a river, it doesn’t matter.