As a trainer and coach for the David Allen Company, I've found that as simple as it may sound to identify the Next Action, it takes practice to become savvy at defining the microscopic steps of what's necessary to effectively move forward. Given the amount of data coming at people in a day, an hour—or even within minutes—we've had to learn how to process information extremely quickly. As a result, people tend to conjure up images about everything that's got to happen for a project to be compl...