INDEXone alpha system for, 98-99
purging and, 102
success factors for, 97-101
focus, 63,65,67-68
vertical vs. horizontal, 20-21,54-56
see also outcome focusing
Forster,E.M.,217
four-criteria model for choosing actions
in the moment, 49,191,192-95
GANTT charts, 211
general-reference filing, 164-65,218—19
getting started, 85-103
implementation tricks for, 85-87
one-final-thing syndrome and, 102-3
setting aside time for, 87-89
setting up space for, 89-91
work tools and, 91-102
Gibbon, Edward, 7
Gleeson, Kerry, 16
goals, one- to two-year, 52
Grandview, 219
hanging files, 100-101
Harris, SidneyJ., 253
HatfieldJ.A.,xi
Havel, Vaclav, 20
head, emptying of, 186
high-tech collection tools, 28
Hock, Dee, 66
Hoffer, Eric, 6
"hold and review" files and piles, 170
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 141
home actions lists, 144,146-47
Horace, 17
horizontal control or focus, 20-21,24,
54
hoteling, 91
Hubbard, Elbert, 34
implementation tricks, 85-87
see also getting started
"in," see processing "in"
in-baskets, 27, 30-31,108,117-18,176
and last-in vs. first-in processing, 123
incompletes (open loops), 12-13,26-27,
45,46
incompletion triggers lists, 114-17
personal, 116-17
professional, 114-15
incubation, 41,42-44,125,126-27
someday/maybe lists for, 42-43
tickler files for, 42,43-44
tools for, 35
information gathering, 214—15
inputs, 3—4
Inspiration program, 220-21
intelligent dumbing down, 242-43
internal commitments, dealing effectively
with, 12-18
basic requirements for, 13
and controlling your mind, 15-17
exercise for, 13-14
knowledge work and, 15
transformation of "stuff" and, 17-18jobs, shifting definitions of, 6
Johnson, Samuel, 252
Kekich, David, 3,189
Kempton, Sally, 23
Kennedy, John F., 246
knowledge work, 5,15
labelers, 93,100
La Bruysre, Jean de, 149
Lambert, Craig, 10
large-category filing, 165
Leonardo da Vinci, 30
libraries, 166-67
life:
big-picture view of, 53
two-problem theory of, 251
lists, 35-37,140-41
areas of focus, 165,205-6
next-action, 41,45,140,143-49,186
projects, 34,37-38,45,137,140,
155-58,205
reviewing of, 183-84,186
someday/maybe, 42-43,46,140,
168-69,186
three forms of, 141
to-do, 7-8,17, 37,40-41.
trigger, 114-17,206