Comments on: GTD one-liners: re-negotiate your commitments constantly

By: 7 simple GTD rules for bloggers

7 simple GTD rules for bloggers — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:38:28 +0000

[...] writing too fast, exhausting yourself, either too slow, and your readers are not coming back. Renegotiating your commitments should become a regular [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:45:38 +0000

Great post, its easy to agree to the gtd idea in principle, but like you say, committing to it is another thing. I always put decisions into the someday/maybe category, and review them monthly.

By: MihaÃ¯

MihaÃ¯ — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:51:51 +0000

I am retracting the metanoia – rethorical point, my mistake, as I wanted to speak about metanoia as the permanent spiritual conversion.

I think that events are remaining usually the same, only the inside is rearranging.

By: dragos

dragos — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:24:22 +0000

@Mihai: those Greeks really knew their stuff … But it’s more than metanoia here, it’s constantly rearrange yourself in front of the events, not just redescribe the events…
@Jennifer: thanks Jennifer, these are very kind words

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:22:12 +0000

What an excellent and profound post!

By: MihaÃ¯

MihaÃ¯ — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:35:13 +0000

Metanoia (from the Greek Î¼ÎµÏ„Î±Î½Î¿á¿–ÎµÎ½, metanoien, to change one's mind) is a rhetorical device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way.