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Tag Archives: GTD Best Practices
What’s your standard for email?
I assert that it’s actually less effort to maintain your email inbox at zero than to maintain it at 300 or 3,000. Will it take effort? Of course. But there is gold to be mined there with a trusted practice that will have ripple effects across your workflow and motivation.
GTD is more than time management
Your GTD system, with a current and complete inventory or your commitments, helps you manage yourself effectively regardless of time’s alterations.
What are the first steps to take for an immediate change?
Get a notepad and inbox, capture everything that has your attention. Decide the next actions on each and all of them. Review that total inventory, keeping it current, at least weekly.
How to clear your inbox, make decisions and generally get things done
People must ask: What does this mean? Is this actionable or not? What is the outcome that I am committed to?
Email, calendar, & tasks in Outlook – the GTD way
If you need to get on top of your Microsoft Outlook® email, calendar, and tasks by implementing GTD, this is the webinar for you. You’ll learn the best recommendations for building a GTD system in Outlook to seamlessly handle your work and personal commitments.
Advice from Steve Jobs on productive meetings
Every company wants to maximize productivity and cut down on unnecessary meetings. But they don’t always know how to go about making meetings more effective.
How to start getting organized
How to get organized? First step is to capture into a simple ‘bucket” all of those things that are not on cruise control – anything that has your attention. Write it all down.
The power of GTD checklists
New to GTD, or a veteran, you can be more productive by harnessing the power of checklists.
Which is more stressful: email or no email?
With the GTD approach to getting email under control, you can stay connected, or take a vacation away from email, and trust that your decision is healthy.
Why ABC Priority Codes Don't Work
Before you spend another minute creating yet another list with ABC, 123, or high-medium-low codes as a way to define your priorities, read my essay this month. You may discover there’s a more natural path for getting you what you need to get the right things done.
Complete projects list = clear commitments
If you don’t have a clear sense of the totality of your obligations, you will always overcommit.
Video with David Allen: on becoming an executive with GTD
David Allen talks about how the GTD Weekly Review, and how to do more executive thinking about your life.
Time management – what's the real issue?
Time management is really agreement management. At the end of the day, how good you feel about what you did (and what
you didn’t do) is proportional to how well you think you kept agreements with yourself.
Working on job one
There are very few times and places we really have the appropriate energy level, tools, and uninterrupted time frames towork on some of our “most important” work.
You don't need a Projects list? Then throw away your calendar.
If you think that a Projects list is unnecessary, then throw away your calendar and trust life will just let you know what you should be doing, in the moment.
Tips for your filing system from David Allen
Here are tips from David Allen for setting up your paper filing system.
David Allen’s workspace, clearly labeled
This is a photo of David Allen’s workspace. You’ll notice that he has helpfully labeled many of the items in the photo.
Should you focus on something ‘more strategic?’
What compounds the challenges of the self-management game is that often the most effective thing to do feels like the last thing you’re capable of doing.
Are you free to feel free?
If you want to have the feeling of freedom regularly, you’ve got to get used to it.
