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GTD Horizons of Focus We do actions to support completing projects which we commit to in order to maintain areas of responsibility at certain standards, all of that becomes directed by long terms goals which we have set in order to create our visions for our life and work, fulfilling our purposes and expressing our core values. We are all involved in these six horizons all the time whether we are conscious of them or not. It’s what creates quite a bit of complexity about how we organise and prioritise our day and our life. You may be inspired in your job to complete a project which will potentially create value toward your companies vision, be supportive of your creative expression, and give you points towards a promotion or raise, which will eventually move you towards your lifestyle and goal, but if you stay late at work to finish the project you may be limiting your expression with your kids, or your partner at home or jeopardising your energy by sacrificing some sleep. It would be nice if there was some simple solution or equation that would resolve these kinds of issues, but there is not. The best you can do is to do you best at clarifying what you are about at each of the horizon in which you operate. These challenges have been compounded in the last decades by giving inappropriate attention to the importance of the more operational and mundane levels. Conceptionally, of course, your life purpose and the company purpose should be the first and most important thing to keep in mind when thinking about what to do. The problem is, even when those things are clear, you are equally responsible to clarify the vision of what fulfilling that vision would look like, what objectives need to be accomplished to make the vision happen, what projects need to be done to achieve the objectives, and ultimately what physical actions need to be done to make any of that show up. So, in GTD terms, it is all equally important. Actually your focus should go towards dealing