What circumstance, situation that you’re in right now, if that were put onto cruise control, or if you were appropriately engaged with that would make the biggest difference?
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Episode #71: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Worst Case Scenario Building
Do the worst case scenario, get through it, relax, and focus on the best.
Episode #70: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Labelers
If you’re not doing anything else, order yourself a labeler, if you don’t have one already. You’d be amazed at how much of a difference it makes.
Episode #69: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Catch Up on Legal Stuff
This is a tip, that would be nice to have implemented before turbulent times. Catch up on your legal documentations, and life insurance, and wills, and all that other stuff.
Episode #68: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Crusty Projects
It’d be a good idea to do an inventory of any old crusty projects that have been sort of hanging around in your life and work.
Episode #67: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Get Your Paper Based Filing System in Order
If you don’t have a really good, quick filing system that you can put stuff into and access easily, then the stuff tends to mount up and then constipate your system.
Episode #66: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—The Capture Step of GTD
The Capture Step of the GTD methodology is the primary step to start with, that is, to get your head empty of anything that has your attention.
Episode #65: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Rearrange Space
Sometimes space makes a huge difference, and there are times when it’s time to then re-think.
Episode #64: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—The Night Before
People have often interviewed or asked me, How do I spend my day?
Episode #63: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Current Reality: How Do You Feel?
We need to make sure that we’re really clear about what’s true in space and time right now.
Episode #62: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Still Small Voice
Trying to make a priority decision, what does the still small voice tell you to do?
Episode #61: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Capture Tools Everywhere
When things pop into your head that you’re going to need to think about, deal with, do something about then you need to make sure you get those out of your head.
Episode #58: David Allen talks with Bruce Fetzer
David Allen talks with Bruce Fetzer about the role of business in doing good work through meta-science. They also explore how to integrate inner life with outer action.
Episode #56: David Allen on Mental RAM, Rapid Refocusing, and Checklists
Today we have three separate, rare segments pulled from the archives on different concepts that are all related to memory and performance improvement. First, you’ll hear a segment regarding the idea of mental RAM, and what happens when we leave unclosed loops open in our lives. Next, you’ll learn about multitasking vs. rapid refocusing and …
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GTD® and Outlook® for Mac 2019 Setup Guide
It’s here! We’re happy to announce our new best-practices guide for implementing GTD with Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2019.® This Guide will show you how to: – Understand the fundamental GTD best practices – Optimally configure Outlook for Mac 2019 in the way we have found works best for GTD – Set up Outlook Tasks …
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10 Reasons GTD is Like Karate
For years I have woven the martial arts metaphor in and through my writing, training and coaching about the Getting Things Done® methodology. I had the good fortune to be able to study karate for several years in my twenties, and my familiarity with that field gave me a rich context of images and concepts …
Episode #50: David Allen Talks with Brian Robertson
David Allen and Brian Robertson discuss how we as humans relate to our own attention, and how the increasing complexity of our work environment has necessitated that we get stuff off our minds. They point out multiple common threads between Getting Things Done for individuals and Holacracy® for organizations. They also consider what happens after …
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GTD® and Asana® Setup Guide
It’s here! We’re happy to announce our new best-practices guide for implementing GTD with Asana. This Guide will show you how to: – Understand the fundamental GTD best practices – Optimally configure Asana in the way we have found works best for GTD – Integrate your actionable email – Create project and next actions lists …
Steve Holden’s GTD Story
Tell us a little about yourself: My name is Steve Holden, and I currently live in Southern California near San Diego. I originally grew up in Northern California near Sacramento. I came down to San Diego to go to San Diego State University (SDSU) to study computer science, and fell in love with San Diego. …
Building a Productivity Jungle
The GTD Summit kicks off in just seven weeks! We are in the midst of finalizing our program and I am excited to announce that Emily Gregory of VitalSmarts will be joining our incredible lineup. She’s going to be sharing insights on effectively managing 10,000+ people. As well as our stage content, we have been working …
