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Life Balance does a great job at this sort of high-level planning view of your life, and frankly, I find it intrusive.

I don't need software to tell me that I want to develop my career and feed my family. I need software to help me at the tactical level of, well, getting things done.

At the same time, many task planners allow various levels of hierarchy, so both sides can be served by including this sort of outline. My outline would start at "work" and "home," whereas yours might start at "create a better world" and "become closer to my family" and "develop my career" or whatever.

Personally, the greatest advantage of GTD is that it separates out the planning and hierarchical sorting of actions and projects from the tactical "do this now!". My projects can be infinite and esoteric, but in the end, I need to go to the store and buy some bananas.