Ch 10 Response

Chapter ten talked about how to incorporate all that we have learned from chapter 3 to nine into our real lives. In order to incorporate all that we have learned, we need to be comfortable and willing to utilize most, if not all of the organization techniques. This chapter encourages its readers to never doubt themselves and reminds us we can get organized with practice and patience. This chapter also expanded on Projects. Allen divided projects into two groups, typical planning step and random project thinking. With typical planning step, we need a more thorough examination of our next step, which includes brainstorming, organizing, setting up meetings, and gathering (more) information. When we have a random great idea, we use random project thinking. With random project thinking, we want to have good writing tools, which includes paper, pads, whiteboard, or computer, available around us to quickly write down our ideas. Having these tools readily available also helps encourage random thinking. Also have a premeditated system on how to take down random ideas also encourages random thinking (support system). Just like our next action list, it is also important to not forget to update your projects list. Lastly to reemphasize, the key to successfully incorporating this system is becoming comfortable with it.