You have to use your mind to get things off your mind
Get in the habit of keeping nothing on your mind Make sure everything you need is collected somewhere other than your head.
If it’s on your mind and not within your system it is taking up unecessary space within your life. Your mind should be for solving problems not for keeping track of them.
Having one single lane in which all of your information flows means that your wants, your hopes, your todos, your dreams are all in a single location to be able to process correctly
When you have successfully captured something, you must determine what the next action is. There are only three choices:
- Do it right that moment (two-minute rule)
- Delegate it to someone else
- Defer it to the future (as in a hard date)
If an item isn’t actionable, it is either:
- Trash
- Someday
- Reference