Irresponsibility can be an addiction as strong as drugs or alcohol, Irresponsible Anonymous is a 12 step program to kick the habit of breaking promises, this is step six, it’s about figuring the final destination of your day to day work.
On the second post in this program, I stated that it’s not important to know where your life is headed if everything is out of control, this is a corollary of a point David Allen makes in his presentations about GTD (Getting Things Done).
David Allen speaks about the duality of Control vs. Perspective: Too much vision with no control turn you into the mad hatter, changing seats around the table with brilliant arguments but no consistency. Control without perspective makes you a micro-manager: Archiving system with alphanumeric code and FIFO inventory control… for the coffee napkins; the idea is to find equilibrium between both things. continue reading…
