19Capture Your Open Items
Open items are those tasks, to-do’s, projects, goals, ideas, and actions (business or personal) that you need or want to do, but have not yet done. They may tug at you to get done today, or be as far off in the future as retirement. The trick is to gather them together by writing them down so that you don’t have to waste valuable mental real estate trying to keep track of them.
Think of your brain as a computer hard drive; it can only hold so much memory. When a hard drive reaches its capacity, it starts to slow down and wonky things happen. By capturing your open items on a list, your brain is freed up to focus on what’s in front of you right now. The ideas and to-do items that comprise these lists come from a variety ...
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