Also, with Mark's book, it is packed full of great stuff. Remember to take it just a bit at a time.

@James If you liked the Jewel exercise, you will love the goal planning stuff. It brings heart to the process like nothing I've ever tried before. I've had lots of great insights and breakthroughs doing it. Plus, I feel organized and effective.

Thanks for the feedback on the comments section. The box IS way too small! I'll see if I can get this stuff changed. (It's not on Wordpress, so I'll have to talk to my designer.)

Two pieces of feedback if I may: 1) make the message box bigger please! And 2) get a subscribe option so that I get comments emailed to me – I totally didn't realise you didn't have one and only accidentally wandered back to realise I'd almost missed on out some wonderful chat with friends. A wordpress example is here http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/

@Lynn – choice paralysis is a BIG issue for me. I used to freeze up when given a menu as a kid! And TED is a favourite of mine, so thanks for pointing out this vid! It's very interesting, and like most TED films it's a starting point for thinking rather than an answer. Ironically, that means it suffers from the very problem it talks about!

@James – a whole wall – lol! It's like a new decorating method.
I had a friend once who was trying to decide on a paint colour. She got sample boards and stuck them on her wall to see them in different light – this is the technique all the home decor shows espouse. However, she ended up with over 10 of these (3 at most is recommended). She would then be all confused and couldn't make up her mind.

The problem is that as human beings, we all have fear of making the wrong decisions. I'm no expert but there is a great video that explains how too many things can cause immobilization. And it may be that you are worried you will let something slip if you don't have everything down. Who knows but watching it might help a bit. It's called The Paradox of Choice from the awesome TED site – check out more videos there if you haven't yet.

Good luck!

After that, it was easy for me to divide the rest up into future projects/tasks, goals, desired routines.

I've been using Mark's Heart Centered Goal Planning to continue the process of understanding my projects and creating tasks to complete them.

If you own Mark's book, Unveiling the Heart of Your Business, then you have access to the Heart-Centered Goal Planning Audio class. If you don't own the book, buy it now, this bonus is worth the price of the book alone! http://www.heartofbusiness.com/thebook/index.htm

Now, I'm going to go see what you're blogging about. Hmmm, maybe I should have done that first?!

I tend to struggle with categorising afterwards though, and the sheer number of stuff tended to get me down. I've started to blog about ways I've dealt with that, but I'm still working on it – so do share anything you've got!