on stacks

Great be-honest-with-yourself reminder from David Allen:

“But, to be exact, with those stacks, you could conceivably be ‘organized.’ It’s all relative—if you truly have decided that fifty pounds of miscellaneous paper material piled up all around your office is reflective of what it really means (these are all things that I just want to feel slightly pressured by but not actually do anything about, that I want to be able to find in a relatively short period of time, if I have to), then you’re organized.”

Heh. Yeah, I’m not so happy about “feel slightly pressured by but don’t actually do anything about” in my life.

— Productive Living