Ignoring next actions on secondarily important actions and projects because you are too busy and concerned with urgent things fosters continual crisis management.
Category Archives: David Allen
Turns Out, GTD Is Child’s Play
Seeing kids light up as they gain control over their world made me wonder—what if every student had access to these skills? Imagine growing up with GTD as second nature.
The One List People Trust
The problem with most people’s system is that the calendar is the only list they trust, and more than 95% of what they really need to keep track of is not a set of appointments but all the things to be done in between them.
Have Your Lists Become Listless?
Come back to the purpose of your lists. Are they creating freedom and expansive thinking?
The Way Out is Through
You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you’re not doing. We have to loosen the grip of unclear agreements with ourselves to be free to follow our intuitive hunches and creative focus.
The Numbness of Blended Stacks
With a little effective categorizing, you can stop having to keep thinking about having to be doing so much work!
The Doing Dance
How much, of which kind of work to do when, is the eternal dance of the workday. It’s an eternal challenge, not an inherent problem.
What does “organized” mean?
You are disorganized if you need something somewhere that you don’t have or have something somewhere that you don’t need.
The Due Diligence of Decision-making
If thorough front-end decision-making is a key success behavior, and you can easily get sidetracked, can you train yourself to make them quicker, better, and more thoroughly across your life and work? Sure.
Getting Others to Change
How do you motivate people to change their behavior? This is a common question for managers, executives, coaches, teachers, parents, and anyone else who ever wants other people around them to act differently in a consistent way.
The Direction Correction Badge
I’ve noticed that one of the hardest things for people to do is to change what they’re doing to something better to be doing, when there’s nothing externally forcing them to. But to unhook from whatever groove we’re in, in the moment, and shift the focus of awareness and physical energies into something that may not be as immediately easy or comfortable…I think that takes real strength.
The Process Pressure Points are Personal
The most successful executives/professionals/people keep their decks clear, make decisions on the front end, dispatch the results to trusted people and systems, track commitments rigorously (their own and others’) and get physically engaged taking actions on the projects they own.
Your Priorities: Leaping from Hope to Trust
GTD makes the intuitive leaps about what action to take more a matter of trust than hope.
The Case for Current Reality
David Allen’s answer about where to start with GTD? Anywhere.
We’re All Alone in this Together
The best teams and relationships are the ones in which the players all acknowledge they’re each alone in the endeavor together.
Why “List” is a Dirty Word
When I have shared my own personal system in my presentations, someone always says, “You’ve got so many LISTS!’ with a tone of voice that really translates into “How silly and stupid! There’s no way that could work for me.” What’s wrong with lists? I understand their negative reactions. Most people haven’t had a lot …
Go beyond passion to peaceful purposefulness
I have been attempting to understand why it bugs me to hear professional motivators talk about the necessity for “passion” to be successful. Perhaps I’m just getting too old and lazy to be interested in jacking up my emotions about anything. (Getting passionate about something usually seems to me like hard work.) Or perhaps it’s …
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Are you overwhelmed by long lists?
Are you overwhelmed by long lists? David Allen’s advice for choosing what to do from your many possibilities.
GTD and Teams
A recurring question from people new to GTD, or interested in its applicability to an organization, is “How does GTD relate to teams?”
Episode #89: David Allen on How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Taxes…and Everything Else
In this episode we present an excerpt from a talk that David Allen gave in front of a live audience. It covers procrastination, what type of people are the most susceptible to getting stuck, and how to stop procrastinating on your taxes…and everything else.
