There is never a moment at which you could do everything you’ve decided to to, simply because most of those actions require a specific tool or location. Context is also the first criterion that limits your options and keeps you from being reminded of things you simply can’t do. If you’re like me, and find …
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Seems there’s an eternal question about how being more productive can happen without adding to the Type-A personality syndrome of ever-harder, ever-more, ever-faster. Read my essay in Productive Living with yet another spin on that age-old issue. It’s not about fast or slow. It’s about how you’re involved, which is a much bigger context. – David …
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Question: Where do I put deferred tasks that are due, for example, in three days? If I’m processing my Inbox on Monday, and I know the next step to completion is a two hour task, “at Computer” that is due on Thursday, do I make a decision to do it at a specific time, and …
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Opportunity for GTD seminar graduates—we have just launched GTD Managing Projects and Priorities, a course designed for graduates of the GTD Mastering Workflow seminar, to dive deeper into the GTD models for planning projects and managing priorities. Debuting in 2 cities this fall: Seattle – November 2 Los Angeles – November 9 Register before September …
GTD’s Horizons of Focus model defines purpose and fulfillment at the 50,000-foot level. There is an ongoing reassessment of how that translates into action on the runway.
We’d love to know how many of you have read Getting Things Done, Ready For Anything or Making It All Work. [HTML1] (please vote and submit separately for each one) Looking to join a book club to discuss David Allen’s books? We have lively discussions about all three of these on GTD Connect, our online …
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Two of our Senior Coaches, Leslie Harradine and Kelly Forrister, are doing another one-hour Webinar on Digging Out From Backlog. It was such a popular Webinar the first time around (watch the archive on GTD Connect,) that it’s being offered again with more in-depth tips, tricks and strategies. Seems like backlog is a common challenge …
Q: How did you organize your tasks? Am I supposed to have a main Projects category and corresponding action tasks categorized @home, @work, etc? David Allen: Yes, my Next Action lists are To-Do categories in Lotus Notes. “Projects” is a category, just like the Action lists of “Calls” “At Computer” etc. They are simply flat …
A little Twitter humor for your holiday weekend! Reposted here with permission from the talented cartoonist Rob Cottingham. Thanks Rob!
A Community Contribution from Erik Hanberg Here’s how I deal with email and keep from getting too overloaded: I have one inbox. Everything goes to the same place (accounts either forward to Gmail or I’ve actually set Gmail up to reply from those accounts). I only check email when I can reply to it easily. …
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Google announced Priority Inbox today and the emails started flooding in asking, “Isn’t this anti-GTD?” Google says that Priority Inbox “automatically identifies your important email and separates it out from everything else, so you can focus on what really matters.” So, what does David Allen say about this kind of tool and the questions about …
Q: How did you get involved in GTD and workflow coaching, and what motivates you to continue? David Allen: When the executives and entrepreneurs I worked with. I’m continually motivated to keep doing this work, because it never stops being quite transformational for anyone who applies the principles, and there are few things I’ve ever …
A participant from a recent GTD public seminar shared what’s different in their life now. I was the guy on the back row when you asked ‘How do these unfinished things make you feel?’ replied with ‘a failure’. I’ve been using the concepts learned in class to process my work and personal email. (I use …
Do you use an iPad for anything GTD-related? [HTML1] You can hear how David uses his new iPad on the latest Up Close with David podcast series on GTD Connect.
A Community Contribution from April Perry The first day of school started out great. My three oldest children dressed in their new clothes, laced up their new shoes, ate a healthy breakfast, and then headed off to school with homemade sack lunches and brightly-colored, fully-stocked pencil cases. I felt like a wonderful mom. They returned …
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Cindy recently participated in a GTD course at her company. She sent along an email to her facilitator about her experience. With her permission, we’re sharing her letter with our GTD Times readers. First of all, thanks for a great class! I really enjoyed it. You are an awesome instructor – very engaging and really …
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David Allen will be leading a “GTD Success Strategies” Webinar for our GTD Connect members next Friday, August 27th @ 10am PDT. He’ll share the keys for what makes GTD stick, including: The habits and rituals to create What to do when you fall “off” GTD Creating a trusted home base for yourself Creating a …
We just released an A4* size of our new GTD & BlackBerry Guide. For those of you who will print the Guide and prefer this size instead of the *210 MM wide and 297 MM tall (about 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inch), used in Europe, and rest of the world, except the US and …
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