Comments on: Live a More Effective Life Mapping Your Most Important Decisions

By: The Essential Guide to Effective Decision Making

The Essential Guide to Effective Decision Making — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:58:17 +0000

[...] PrOACT mind map template (which also includes the information from this article), check out the this post on the Mindjet Blog. Thanks Michael Deutch for creating and sharing it! tweetmeme_source = 'lucianop'; [...]

By: Michael Rose

Michael Rose — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:19:06 +0000

Thanks Michael… I must remember that I’ve got all these tools when I’m right in the middle of my degree and I’m wondering where all that focus went

By: Michael Deutch

Michael Deutch — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:44:11 +0000

Wow, Michael. Congrats! Sounds like your life has really transformed as a result of your efforts and from the clarity you’ve gained throughout the process. Very inspirational.

By: Michael Rose

Michael Rose — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:41:17 +0000

At the end of ’08 I read David Allen’s ‘Making it all work’. I had a whole 5 days at the beginning of the year and spent a whole day on each of the 5 steps. At the end of the process my mind was so clear of the ‘runway’ and ‘project level’ stuff I was able to think long and hard about the higher levels of focus.

I’d also happened to catch Marissa Mayer (Google VP) in a talk about making big decisions and she mentioned what I’ve come to call the ‘Mayer Method’. She basically said that before moving to Google she created a list of all the good decisions she’d ever made in life and what motivations and values they all had in common (i.e. working with people, wanting more creative freedom, moving East, stretching herself, etc.)

I applied this method to my GTD perspectives process and used MindManager to get everything down on paper. I just got everything down on paper and then made sense of it the following day.

The result? Me dropping 5 or 6 largish projects that no longer worked for me, I decided to quit my job and go freelance and I’ve just applied to do the MA I’d been wanting to do for almost 10 years!

GTD + Mayer + MindMap = major life changes and making sense of the motivations behind them = never been happier