Thought Management System (TMS)

When we have an active thought, we choose to do one of three things:

1. Immediately turn the thought into an action. Here we're basically thinking & doing - like playing basketball or paying the bills.

2. Store the thought for future action. We have an idea while on a walk and we write a note or put a rubberband on our finger to later recall it (or we simply put it to memory).

3. Do nothing, or throw it away. The thought has no intrinsic value to us so we can choose to simply dispose of it. This can actually become a very powerful habit.

Similar to a computer, we're most effecient when we're simply processing without interuption - we're in a zone - we're continuously acting on each thought, generating a new thought, and again turning it into action.

Often times, while in this mode, circumstances (or just the nature of our ADD mind) continuously interupt us by generating new thoughts. Sometimes one of these new thoughts warrents the interupt. We need to stop our current process, switch gears, and transition into action in another direction. Other times the thought is valuable, but does not warrent immediate action. In this case we need to adequately store the thought so that we can later recall it and act on it. And then many times we also find ourselves interupted by a third type of thought: negative thoughts. These have no intrinsic value and are simply monkey wrenches thrown into our processing. The most effective response to this type of thought is to simply dispose of it, or throw it away.

Well, that's a brief introduction to how I got started on my Thought Management System. The fundimental concept is to make a front-end decision: How important is a given thought? Based on that decision, I can choose to Act Now, Throw It Away, or Store It for future action. The main guts of the TMS deals with storing thoughts or ideas as future tasks and setting appropriate reminders and tags to carry them out as effectively and efficiently as possible.

If things go according to plan, I'll post the details of my Thought Management System 'soon' ... toReview