Coaching practices for Zen to Done Ztd as a Caregiver
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- I’m efficient now, blowing through my list every day, but I’ve started to feel hollow about it
- My calm only lasts as long as the cushion
- Every time I try to get organized I try to overhaul everything at once, and a week later the whole thing has collapsed because it was too much to keep up
- I can’t stay on one thing
- I open my laptop, fall straight into email and Slack, and by the end of the day I’ve been busy nonstop but the one thing that actually mattered never got touched
Practices that may help
- Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
Zen To Done (ZTD) is Leo Babauta’s streamification of Getting Things Done — it keeps GTD’s capture and next-action habits while adding a minimalist philosophy: focus on one habit at a time, maintain a small set of most important tasks each day, and simplify rather than optimize. ZTD is a practitioner system grounded in habit-formation and attention research rather than a formally tested protocol. - Align daily work with meaningful goals
Ground your MITs and projects in goals that genuinely matter to you, not just what is urgent.
Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical - Work as practice (samu)
Bring full, wholehearted attention to ordinary tasks, treating activity itself as meditation.
Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond) - Build the capture habit before anything else
Install one habit at a time — start with ubiquitous capture — before adding other ZTD practices.
Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical - Do one thing at a time with full focus
Work on one task at a stretch with no split attention — the Zen principle applied to execution.
Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical - Zhuangzi and the Practice of Perspective Shift
Zhuangzi uses humour, paradox, and vivid thought experiments to loosen the grip of fixed viewpoints — arguing that most suffering comes from rigidly inhabiting a single perspective. The practical work is developing the capacity to step back into a larger frame, hold multiple views simultaneously, and respond to circumstances with flexibility rather than attachment to how things "should" be. - Time Perspective Therapy
Philip Zimbardo's time perspective research shows that people systematically over-index on one time orientation — past-negative, present-hedonistic, future-focused — and that this bias predicts health, financial, and relationship outcomes. The goal is a "balanced time perspective" that draws flexibly on all orientations. The psychometric research is solid; direct clinical trial evidence for time perspective therapy as an intervention is more limited. - Identify most important tasks (MITs) each morning
Choose one to three tasks that must happen today and do them before anything else.
Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical - Extending shikantaza to daily activity
Bring the same non-grasping, present awareness from formal sitting into ordinary tasks.
Shikantaza: Just Sitting - Do a brief weekly review and planning session
Each week, review what happened, clear the decks, and commit to next week’s MITs.
Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
Related concerns
- Zen To Done System
Zen To Done (ZTD) is Leo Babauta’s streamification of Getting Things Done — it keeps GTD’s capture and next-action habits while adding a minimalist philosophy: focus on one habit at a time, maintain a small set of most important tasks each day, and simplify rather than optimize. ZTD is a practitioner system grounded in habit-formation and attention research rather than a formally tested protocol.
- Zen To Done Ztd After A Setback
Zen To Done (ZTD) is Leo Babauta’s streamification of Getting Things Done — it keeps GTD’s capture and next-action habits while adding a minimalist philosophy: focus on one habit at a time, maintain a small set of most important tasks each day, and simplify rather than optimize. ZTD is a practitioner system grounded in habit-formation and attention research rather than a formally tested protocol.
- Zen To Done Ztd As A Parent
Zen To Done (ZTD) is Leo Babauta’s streamification of Getting Things Done — it keeps GTD’s capture and next-action habits while adding a minimalist philosophy: focus on one habit at a time, maintain a small set of most important tasks each day, and simplify rather than optimize. ZTD is a practitioner system grounded in habit-formation and attention research rather than a formally tested protocol.
- Zen To Done Ztd At Work
Zen To Done (ZTD) is Leo Babauta’s streamification of Getting Things Done — it keeps GTD’s capture and next-action habits while adding a minimalist philosophy: focus on one habit at a time, maintain a small set of most important tasks each day, and simplify rather than optimize. ZTD is a practitioner system grounded in habit-formation and attention research rather than a formally tested protocol.
- Zen To Done Ztd Before Bed
Zen To Done (ZTD) is Leo Babauta’s streamification of Getting Things Done — it keeps GTD’s capture and next-action habits while adding a minimalist philosophy: focus on one habit at a time, maintain a small set of most important tasks each day, and simplify rather than optimize. ZTD is a practitioner system grounded in habit-formation and attention research rather than a formally tested protocol.
- Zen To Done Ztd During A Big Change
Zen To Done (ZTD) is Leo Babauta’s streamification of Getting Things Done — it keeps GTD’s capture and next-action habits while adding a minimalist philosophy: focus on one habit at a time, maintain a small set of most important tasks each day, and simplify rather than optimize. ZTD is a practitioner system grounded in habit-formation and attention research rather than a formally tested protocol.
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