The author of the system, Mark Forster, created it based on his personal experience, and after several weeks of use noticed that the increase in the volume of work performed, and he explains this by the fact that there are no prerequisites in the system for postponing cases and resisting their implementation. I have seen for myself that the system is really designed to eliminate resistance to unpleasant or difficult tasks, which makes it possible to achieve noticeable progress.
Short instructions
The system consists of a long list of everything you would like to do ever, written in a notebook in a ruler (Mark considers 25-35 lines optimal). As soon as a new task comes to your mind, write it down at the end of the list. The list should be processed page by page as follows:
- Read all the points on the page without trying to make decisions or get started.
- And now sort through the items more slowly until some one stands out.
- And now take up this task and do it as long as you like it.
- Delete the task from the list, and add it to the end of the list if you haven't finished the work yet.
- Keep working on the same page. Don't move on to the next one until you can run the entire page from start to finish without any outstanding tasks.
- Go to the next page and repeat the whole procedure with it.
- If you went to the page and at the first pass you did not encounter a task that you would have highlighted, cross out all the remaining tasks without rewriting them to the end of the list. I note that this rule, of course, does not apply to the last page, since you are still adding tasks there. Highlight the canceled tasks with a marker.
- As soon as you finish with the last page — go to the first one containing unfinished tasks
Source. And here — more detailed instructions in Russian.
