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GETTING-THINGS-DONE5 MIN READ

Run the Weekly Review That Restores Trust

Use GTD to run a weekly review that makes the system current.

A weekly review is not housekeeping; it is how the system earns trust again. The idea GTD works by separating five jobs that professionals often blend together. Capture gets the reminder out of memory. Clarify decides what it means and what the next action is. Organize parks the reminder where it belongs. Reflect keeps the system current enough to trust. Engage uses that trusted system to choose work with confidence. The mechanism is cognitive relief plus decision quality. When unfinished commitments live in your head, the mind keeps rehearsing them at random times. When each commitment has a trusted home…

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