Get Everything Done

First thought that did come up: sounds and feels good. Gives you control over urgency, importance and what one "likes" to do in a balanced way ;)

It also seems to encourage a flow state - a balance between challenge and readiness

I'm excited, and all the comments people are making have an air of mystery to me!

I just registered to the new Email Newsletter, and still awaiting instructions on FV.

I feel like a kid on Christmas awaiting his gifts!

Congratulations Mark!

The system seems to address the problem I've had for years - logjam. When there's something I know I "should" do but don't "want" to do while there's something I "could" do but feel i "shouldn't" do so I end up doing nothing useful. The new method of working the list looks like it offers a way to give yourself the structure to get EVERYTHING done.

Thanks Mark, I think you did a great job at writing the first newsletter. It seems like all your work from the earlier versions pays off in terms of clarity and simplicity :)

Pending my real life assessment of the effectiveness of the FV system, I want to echo BG's comment. I too found the writing in the newsletter a very good example of clear and concise language. It looks as if particular attention was given to this aspect (maybe through your own process of successive drafts, Mark?).

Thanks a lot.

@caibre65: I have this problem too. Let's hope FV will banish logjam!

@Mark, I received it, it is very clear and I started using it right away!

And I just got into a flow state and did the work. There was no resistance, it is amazing to me, this is pure genius!

Simply, yet profoundly powerful, this is your E=MC2 Mark!

Calibre65 & acedia,
<<The system seems to address the problem I've had for years - logjam. When there's something I know I "should" do but don't "want" to do while there's something I "could" do but feel i "shouldn't" do so I end up doing nothing useful.>>

I've been jamming those same logs for years! Mark's systems have helped more than anything else, until I fall off the system or "tweak" it (*roll eyes*). Let's see what FV can make of it!

Mark:

Thank you for releasing this excellent system! I'm very excited about using it - you must have put in a massive amount of effort in developing it and yet the finished product is so simple and elegant.

In your very well written instructions you state *the aim of any time management system is to help you to get your work done, not get in the way of doing your work.*

When I think about systems like franklin covey and GTD I ask myself if this is the aim of these systems? I think they get in the way of productivity and of course must have the aim of shifting plenty of 'units' like planners and various other merchandise.

And then there is you, a very generous individual willing to share for free your insights. And what insights they are too!