You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you. —David Allen

During the past week we've been covering the most common mistakes when implementing and using your GTD system. Time to recap...

19 common mistakes in GTD: the wrap

1. Believing an app will do the work for you.

2. Thinking it's a great solution only for work-related issues.

3. Thinking your environment will magically change.

4. Not having read the GTD book.

5. An incomplete system (in which you only include the important, the urgent... or only the work-related stuff...).

6. Not capturing everything (you pause to discern if you should capture something or not, if it's important, if it's work related).

7. Partially clarifying or not clarifying with the right frequency each of your inboxes.

8. Make the steps capture, clarify and organize a single step.

9. Keeping on working with tasks, without differentiating between next actions and projects.

10. Not reflecting on your system weekly, allowing it to lose its reliability.

11. Mixing actionable and non-actionable material in your next action lists.

12. Overcommitting ourselves, not incubating enough.

13. Missinterpreting the usefulness of the Waiting for list.

14. Intentionally customizing GTD when you barely have any experience.

15. Not clarifying correctly or not defining/writing actions and projects properly.

16. Misapplying the engage habit/step.

17. Trying to build or configure the perfect tool.

18. Trying to fit the methodology to the tool, instead of fitting the tool to the methodology.

19. Overcomplicating the system.