personal "barometer"

[Larry Underhill]

One of the things that attracts me to GTD is the notion of "relaxed
control." When I'm really in a GTD groove, I am productive AND quite
relaxed. One interesting thing that I have noticed over the past few
months, is that I can tell when I'm really firing on all cylinders by
the type of food that I am eating.

In other words, healthy eating seems to be my barometer for this sense
of relaxed control.

If I am choosing the cheeseburger and reaching for the second mudslide
too often then... I probably need to close some open loops and get
things back under control.

It seems that I have a finite supply of daily self-discipline. When I am
struggling to get those "runway level" things done, it feels like I
squander this self-discipline and when I finally sit down to eat, well,
all the good intentions go to to hell in the requisite hand-basket. Good
GTD "flow" helps me preserve that self-discipline and more easily
control what goes in the pie-hole.

Anybody else have a personal barometer they use to help moderate their
behavior (gtd context or otherwise)?


--Larry

Every time I hear a cello, I think, "uh oh."

[Edward Vielmetti]

Larry,

I have a pedometer -
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2003/10/pedometer.html
which I keep on my belt. I can tell pretty closely what my
mood is by how many steps I'm taking - a few consecutive
days of only 3000-5000 paces means that I'm sitting too much
and not getting done the more active tasks that I
need to walk around for. Days when I'm getting 12000+
are usually really good days.

For a while I was tracking it daily but that got to be too
much - now it's just a passive reminder of where the
day or week is that I can test out easily.

thanks

Ed

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[gm2]

I think it goes beyond discipline Larry: Fat induces a sense of well
being. So the more "stressed" a person is, the more they crave fatty
foods. Conversely, less stress, less desire for fatty (unhealthy) food.