Beyond Mindset

Three decades ago, UPenn psychologist M.E.P. Seligman interviewed first-year students about their experience of setbacks. All of them could describe setbacks.

First, no matter who you are; and no matter how successful you've been, setbacks are painful.

The students described grief, guilt, shame, being judged, not being smart enough, or not having worked hard enough. Worse was resignation and hopelessness.?

Later, over the course of his engaging these students, Seligman watched most of them bounce back.?What caused the bounce back was a shift in mindset from -- this setback revealed who I am -- to I can do something different. What's most interesting to me, working harder, dug them deeper into the pain and wasn't linked with bouncing back.

Ultimately though, while what Seligman called, "learned optimism," that is, developing the mindset that no matter the setback, there's a way past it, is an essential first step, they had to use that optimism to search for an effective way forward.

At GTD Focus, we've spent our careers exploring effective ways forward.

Willingness to engage trial and error to find a path forward is a winning character trait. At the same time, our work is to get you to effective strategies for how you engage, so you have the freedom and focus to engage.

Here's Foundation -- the first course

SESSION 1, 2: INTRO // SETTING UP A TRUSTED SYSTEM

??Your work and personal stuff?is tracked and searchable. The benefit: reducing stress.

?Track all the commitments you make. The?benefit: reducing embarrassment and judgment.

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SESSION 3: CAPTURE

? Write, record, or gather any and everything that has your attention into a collection tool with the result: more confidence.

* You’ll be capturing anything and everything that has your attention -- out of your head and into a trusted system with the result: more free space.

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SESSION 4, 5, 6: CLARIFY // ORGANIZE

? Clarify the items you have collected.

? Learn the GTD Workflow Map for clarifying and organizing inboxes.

? Create a trusted list manager to track projects, next actions, waiting for’s, and someday/maybe items.

? Create a trusted calendar to track day-specific and time-specific items.

The result: you get to act; not react.

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SESSION 7, 8: REFLECT // ENGAGE

The result: use your trusted system to make action decisions with confidence and clarity.

Warmly,

CEO of GTD Focus

Francis Sopper