From the time I was a small child I had the need to write stuff down. I remember being eight years old and my mom gave me a small notebook that I was to use to write down assignments from school. I lost it in short order! It wasn’t until the last year or so that I pulled out my old Franklin Planner and started to make an effort to capture all of my stuff. As I’ve mentioned before the book Getting Things Done has been a great help to getting me in touch with the “how to”.Along the way, I have come to the comclusion that even though you may have the “capture habit” down pat there’s still going to be stuff that doesn’t get captured. Why is this? I think it comes down to the fact that there’s always something floating around in our heads during moments when paper or a cell phone or some other capture device isn’t present. There’s also a lot of stuff that is initially dismissed when you think about it the first time but keeps coming back in to your mind. These items should be captured. Maybe they need to be put onto a Someday/Maybe list. In spite of the fact that I still can’t capture everything I’m sure my mother would be proud of me for taking her advice after all these years.
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