A GTD Times community contribution by Paul Lavender The idea for writing this article came from the talk by Thay on the History of Engaged Buddhism in Mindfulness Bell No. 49. Specifically, when Thay talks about the future and mentions there will be courses held for businesspeople. I would like to share a practice that …
How do you know if your projects list is complete?
GTD Secrets: True Confessions of a GTD Coach – Episode 3 Have you ever been stumped by the difference between a Project and an Area of Focus? In this great 5 minute podcast, David Allen Company senior coach Meg Edwards talks about the GTD best practices for creating a Projects list. She gives tips on: …
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Learn GTD in Denver
Rachelle, director of public events for the David Allen Company, asked us to pass this along to the GTD Times readers: The GTD: Mastering Workflow seminar is coming to Denver, Colorado on Thursday, May 28th. As a special offer for GTD Times readers, take 10% off the registration fee with the code Rocky10. Whether you …
Be Creative Amid Chaos
David Allen is now a regular columnist for the newly-launched UK version of Wired magazine. Check out his current column. In his regular column on GTD Connect, David shared about how this came to be: “The associate editor, Ben Hammersley, became a big GTD fan when he wrote about it for The Guardian; and he …
Why is David Allen like Einstein?
A GTD Times community contribution by Arif and Ali Vakil What made Einstein an Einstein or Newton a Newton? It was their amazing capability to look at what everybody was looking at, but see something different. The world sees an apple falling from a tree, but Newton notices there’s something greater at work here–it’s gravity. …
BumpTop
Anyone using BumpTop for your GTD workflow? Perhaps it’s a way to do on-the-fly mindsweep captures? Assist with the collection phase? Wrangle your open loops? If any GTD’ers out there are using it, we’d love to hear how you’ve made it a part of your GTD system.
Managing GTD systems on two machines
Any GTD implementers out there have this same challenge and setup and want to tackle this one? Patrick is looking for some advice on managing GTD systems across two systems. I wonder if there is any conventional wisdom/tools/tips/tricks for implementing GTD (I am using the Outlook plugin) when I have to navigate TWO Exchange profiles …
Tips for setting up GTD lists
GTD Secrets: True Confessions of a GTD Coach – Episode 2 In this great 5 minute podcast, David Allen Company coach Meg Edwards shares her journey with setting up her GTD lists. If you’ve ever wondered if you have this “list thing” down, listen to Meg’s coaching on: – Do you need to setup the …
The power of asking, "What's the next action?"
We always love hearing how people are applying GTD in their lives. This heartfelt story came in to David from Peggy in Massachusetts, who shared her experience asking the simple GTD question: “What’s the next action?” Asking myself “What’s the next action?” recently resulted in a wonderfully positive experience in my life. In 1970, I …
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GTD: Good for Coders and Writers?
My income mostly comes from two areas: writing and web development. Doing both, I’ve discovered certain similarities of work between writing and coding. Each has certain activities that can take a really long time. And in both, it’s often important to attack those activities in large chunks of time. I’ve come back to a writing …
What is GTD?
GTD Secrets: True Confessions of a GTD Coach – Episode 1 We are thrilled to have Meg Edwards, one of the masters of GTD at the David Allen Company, providing her perspective, humor and wisdom on the world of GTD. She will be doing a new series for GTD Times called “GTD Secrets: True Confessions …
Sharing GTD with others
Over the years, many people have reached out to us asking how they can share the GTD techniques with kids and young adults. This letter below is from a GTD’er who got value from the article one of our senior staff wrote about his experience using GTD’s Natural Planning Model (p.54 of the GTD book) …
The First Big Productivity Hurdle
Anyone who is entertaining the idea of implementing some form of productivity system in their business (or life, for that matter) will have a lot of resources at their disposal. The Internet alone has nearly 15,000 sites that mention GTD and personal/professional productivity, so right there you’ve got as much surfing to do as the …
David developed GTD because…
Here is an interview with David Allen by the publisher of the Polish version of Getting Things Done. Q: You developed the Getting Things Done Program because… A: I had discovered that applying some rather simple techniques could have profound results, immediately, in people’s ability to focus, stay relaxed, and make positive progress in their …
GTD is for Creative Types
For those that assume GTD is only about rigid, structured task lists, it could seem like a natural conclusion that GTD is not for creative types. But if you were to ask a few people you know who are really into GTD, or at least get something out of it, they probably don’t consider themselves …
Beating Continuous Partial Attention
Eric Hanberg is a regular community contributor to GTD Times. You can also follow his personal blog, with musings on the arts, technology and politics. So I’ve done pretty well in the last 9 months adopting GTD into my daily life. I’m more productive, I’m happier, and I don’t feel like I’m ducking when I …
Free podcast with David Allen
David did an hour-long podcast this morning for the Leadership Coach Academy for their members. Listen as David describes GTD, Making It All Work, and his approach to “elegant laziness!”
Creative inspiration for all ages
For those of you who were at the GTD Summit, you heard David mention in is opening remarks (which will be posted this week to the GTD Connect video library), the letter from the elderly woman who says she gets more inspiration from GTD than from many typical things targeted at seniors. Here’s her letter: …
Learning GTD
We often get asked for our recommendations about the best ways to learn and master GTD. As with any new skill, the best way to start is with how you like to learn. For example, if you wanted to learn Italian you could go through audio lessons, go to an in-person class, move to Italy …
How GTD might have saved a life
We are fortunate to receive many wonderful letters from people across the globe telling us how GTD has affected their lives in a positive way. This letter was sent to David Allen from Jason, who said that GTD may have saved his wife’s life. We thought you would all like to hear his wonderful story: …