1.

It’s not about Getting Things Done, it’s about how well you manage your time.

I prefer to look at it the other way around. My dad says: “We don’t manage time, time is an untangible thing we just can’t manage, time passes and that’s it. We manage the activities we do, what we live for.”

2.

Taking your eyes off the finish line and onto your performance today is what GTD is all about.

I agree wholeheartedly. Actually, I think that’s the killing feature of GTD/organization, help us focus on the tangibles, the concrete, instead of living in our heads. Or, as commenter Chris has put it:

Being able to enjoy the ‘now’, rather than striving for some utopian finish line where you have nothing left to do … which sounds boring.

Thank you.

I would only argue that GTD today is much different from the concept presented in David Allen’s book. Like anything that’s been mass-marketed and monetized, millions will fall for the 1-2-3 solutions and a rare few will keep it in it’s purest intended form.

And yes, I should read the book.

There seem to be a lot of people who have the wrong idea of what GTD actually is about, no doubt aided by too many websites waxing poetic about things that are only somewhat related to GTD and slapping them with the GTD label. And too many people who have never read the book.