The Basic Requirements for Managing Commitments

• If it’s on your mind then your mind isn’t clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in trusted system outside your mind (collection bucket).
• Clarify exactly what your commitment is and decide what you have to do, if anything, to make progress toward fulfilling it.
• Once you've decided all the action you need to take you must keep reminders of them organized in a system you review regularly

An Important Exercise to Test This Model

• Write down the project or situation that is most on your mind at this moment
• Now describe, in a single written sentence, your intended successful outcome of this problem or situation.
• Now write down the very next physical action required to move the situation forward.

Do the above now…
What probably happened after doing the above exercise is that you acquired a clearer definition of the outcome desired and the next action required. What created that is thinking

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought"
– Henry Bergson