There's a Time and Place for Long Prose – Email Is Rarely It

By Scott Allen – Community Contributor I love reading good prose, particularly a good narrative. Sometimes prose is called for in an email — to tell a story, explain your reasoning, provide some depth regarding your feelings on a topic, etc. Some people prefer the phone or face-to-face for those things, but in many situations, …

Hot Off the Press: David Allen Launches New GTD Channel on YouTube

I’ve got some big news for GTD enthusiasts and followers of David Allen’s Getting Things Done systematic approach to personal productivity.  David in conjunction with the David Allen Company have just launched a new YouTube Channel dedicated to Getting Things Done. This new YouTube Channel is a compilation of those videos that David or his …

The Irresistible Allure of Getting Anything Done

By Scott Allen – Community Contributor Ahh…completion! You know the feeling. Inbox…empty. Weekly review…done. Deliverable…delivered. Project…complete. That slight rush as you say, “It is finished.” This can be a great additional motivation in getting things done. One little completion “fix” after another and pretty soon you’re on a major productivity roll. But there can be …

GTD – Changing the World by Bringing Change from Within

A Community Contribution from Arif and Ali Vakil Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you’re completely overwhelmed with all the work that surrounds you? At those times do you then you catch yourself complaining about the outside world “I wish my job wasn’t so demanding”, “I wish there wasn’t so much competition”, …