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I distinguish between someday's and maybe's. Someday's I *will* do. Maybe's maybe not. For someday's I always put parenthetically after the description "Resources Needed/Wanted:" which asks the question: what would I need or want to happen that would trigger me to do this someday item right now? For me, this makes someday's realistic and available for when that "missing link" becomes available, whether that's time, money, emotional energy to invest, credentials, a new delegatee, a call from my mother, or so on.
So, in practical terms, I use two context lists to manage the various someday/maybe's in my life and work. This puts an intrinsic greater importance on somday's than on maybe's, so I typically review someday's every week during my Weekly Review. Whereas, my maybe's are items that I plan to review at least quarterly, but most of the time I come across the list monthly when I find the mental-emotional energy and time to think about my maybe's list. By its nature, they end up being somewhat of a wishlist of things I'd like to accomplish but haven't yet figured out how to accomplish, but with a little creativity I can make them a someday or perhaps even an actual project or next-action.
This is just one modification of many to GTD that I've implemented in my own personal productivity system, and it benefits me by allowing me to move stuff to definable goals without cluttering my active projects or next-actions lists with yet-to-be-productive items.
ProdPod: Episode 98 -- The Power of Short-Term Challenges
ProdPod: Episode 97–Time Thieves, Time Thugs, and Time Terrorists - How to Combat Them So You Can Get Back to Being Productive
ProdPod: Episode 96–Time Thieves, Thugs and Terrorists - Who They Are So You Can Identify Them Efficiently
ProdPod: Episode 95–Effective Meeting Series: More Productivity Meetings With Robert's Rules, Part II
ProdPod: Episode 94–Effective Meeting Series: More Productivity Meetings With Robert's Rules, Part I
ProdPod: Episode 93–Gamification and Your Productivity
ProdPod: Episode 92--Rewarding Yourself for Productive Habit Development and Reaching Goals
ProdPod: Episode 91 -- What Do You Own?
ProdPod: Episode 90 -- Biology, Self-Actualization and Your Productivity
ProdPod: Episode 89 -- Multi-Sensory Productivity
ProdPod: Episode 88 -- Defining Happiness
ProdPod: Episode 87 -- Two-Minute Book Summary: The First 20 Hours
ProdPod: Episode 86 -- The Kaizen Way: What Are the Elements of Kaizen? with Sally Reinholdt (Part 2 of 2)
ProdPod: Episode 85 — The Kaizen Way: What is the Kaizen Way? with Sally Reinholdt (Part 1 of 2)
ProdPod: Episode 84 -- Two-Minute Book Summary: The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
ProdPod: Episode 83 -- 31 Folders Instead of the GTD 43 Folders
ProdPod: Episode 82 -- Procrasti-Doing
ProdPod: Episode 81 -- Productivity and Your Two Minds
ProdPod: Episode 80 -- Setting Up Your Workspace for Success
ProdPod: Episode 79 - Hoarding, Part III - How is hoarding treated and managed? with Professional Organizer Sally Reinholdt
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