Change Your Game with GTD® The Higher Horizons of GTD #10
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Jun 19, 2017 Explore the transition from task management to personal development through GTD. Learn how to align decisions with long-term goals and embrace uncertainty in strategic planning. Discover the importance of setting and revisiting long-term objectives for personal and professional success.
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Control Enables Higher Perspective
- Getting control of immediate tasks naturally lets your thinking rise to longer-term direction and purpose.
- Todd and Robert explain that once inboxes and next actions are handled, your brain will 'float higher' toward strategic questions about life and work.
Higher Horizons Come With Visionary Risk
- Higher-horizon commitments carry more vision risk because you have less control over long-term outcomes.
- Todd warns that committing to multi-year outcomes means accepting uncertainty while still steering day-to-day choices toward that vision.
Horizons Scale To Organizational Alignment
- The Horizons model scales from individuals to organizations to align day-to-day choices with long-term objectives.
- Todd describes facilitating senior teams to translate a 3–5 year organizational vision into departmental projects and yearly priorities.