A Community Contribution by Arif and Ali Vakil Photo: I recently heard Steve Pavlina’s podcast “What is your Purpose”, in which he presented an excellent framework for arriving at your specific purpose. This ties in very well with GTD’s 40,000 ft horizon of focus and also a continuation of my previous post “GTD @ 50,000: …
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6 Months Later: Am I really still doing GTD?
Community Contribution by Erik Hanberg I lurched into a Getting Things Done system over a couple fits and starts. First it started with two friends who had read the book and were talking it up. I was uninterested in what I thought was a “self-help” book. But that soon changed when I discovered an Atlantic …
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Recalibrating Your GTD Systems
Editor’s Note: It is my pleasure to introduce a new GTDtimes Contributor, Venkatesh Rao. Venkat works at the Xerox Innovation Group, where he leads technology projects that aim to invent the future of documents and information work. Prior to Xerox, he spent 2.5 years as a postdoc at Cornell, in Raff D’Andrea’s robotics research group. …
Curious About David's New Book? bNet has an Excerpt for You
For folks that are curious about David Allen’s new book,Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life, I’ve got a treat for you. bNet has just put up a full chapter excerpt that you can check out right now.
Costco Meets David Allen: Nearly Six Million Small Business Owners Discover GTD
It’s not just the little guys that appreciate all that David Allen and GTD has to offer. Some of the biggest corporations on the planet have implemented GTD to improve workplace productivity and personal life/work satisfaction of their work forces. One such company, Costco, has a publication that they send to almost six million small …
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Being Neighborly, Thanks to The Two Minute Rule
A Community Contribution by Eric Hanberg When I started implementing GTD this summer, I thought the main benefit was going to be felt in my work life first and foremost, as GTD would help me juggle my pieced-together living as a freelance writer and web developer. GTD has certainly helped me professionally, but it has …
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David Allen and Eric Mack to Appear at Lotusphere
Both David and longtime friend to the David Allen Company and developer of eProductivity for Lotus Notes, Eric Mack will be presenting at Lotusphere. Their session, called IBM Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing Personal Productivity with Lotus Notes is on Monday, January 9th at 5PM with a booksigning at 6:30PM. If you’re attending Lotusphere you …
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Want to See David Allen Live for Free? Here's Your Chance!
On December 13th the David Allen Company is presenting a special FREE event, Q&A, and book signing with David Allen at UCLA. You’re invited! Registration begins at 9AM and the event runs from 9:30 to 12:30. Here is your chance to get a preview of David’s new “Making It All Work” seminar, the next generation …
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Getting Things Done On the Go with Lotus Notes – Will Traveler Make it Easy?
Will Traveler make getting things done with Notes easy? I have a long-standing interest in devices and applications that increase mobile knowledge worker productivity, particularly those that support the GTD methodology and can sync with Lotus Notes. The problem is that most of the devices that I have used to date fail in one or …
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A way to manage project steps
Community Contribution from Yolanda Otero, an HR Compliance Coordinator from AmerisourceBergen in Orlando Florida I been doing the GTD for the last 6 months and this has changed my day completely in a way that I’m more proactive, organized, and I have full control of work time due to the way that I manage my …
Review of Things by Cultured Code
A Community Contribution by Erik Hanberg. Please note, this is Erik’s personal opinion. Things is not affiliated with or endorsed by David Allen Company. But we’re happy to pass along an objective review from a community member! Too Much to Do In April of this year, I left my full time job to “go freelance.” …
GTD paper systems
For those of you that love the tried and true tools of pen and paper, the David Allen Company has just launched a couple of new products that you’re sure to love. Two sizes of personal coordinators; jr. size and letter size as well as a letter size calendar. Made by Mead, the same folks …
A Great Chance to Try Out GTD Connect for Free!
GTD Connect is David Allen’s subscription product for people that are serious about GTD. Not only are there original articles from David and other David Allen Company GTD Trainers that you can’t find anywhere else, there are also videos, audios and even forum discussions. An annual subscription to this amazing service runs $40 per month …
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Announcing the Winners of the GTDTimes/David Allen Company Executive Workflow Coaching Contest!
Wow! What an amazing turnout! We’ve finally selected our winner and the runners up in the GTDtimes / David Allen Company Executive Workflow Contest. You guys certainly didn’t make it easy. We were overwhelmed at the number of high quality entries from the GTDtimes readership. . There are so many people with compelling reasons as …
Part II: Action Support Folders and Tickler Lists
Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two part series on Action Support Folders and Tickler Lists. The first part can be found here. In the prior post I wrote a little about a recent coaching call I had with DAC Certified Coach, Julie Ireland and shared how she recommended that I set …
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Action Support Folders and Tickler Lists: 2 GTD Tools We Hardly Ever Discuss
I had a coaching session today with Julie Ireland, a DavidCo Certified Coach and felt like what she said made so much sense that it merited sharing with the community. Since I’ve hardly ever seen discussion about Action Support Folders or Tickler Lists and since I felt like my approach towards both needed some tweaking …
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GTD with Outlook and OneNote
Looking for support implementing GTD with Outlook? Check out our GTD and OneNote for Windows Setup Guide from the David Allen Company coaches.
Later This Week on GTDtimes
You’re going to want to be sure that GTDtimes is either in your RSS reader, linked via your iGoogle or NetVibes page, that you’ve subscribed by email. The point is we’ve got some content in the hopper that you’re going to want to read. First, we’re going to announce the big winners in the GTDtimes/David …
GTD balancing act in three steps: The weekly review with kids
“Work and play are words used for the same thing under differing conditions” —Mark Twain All good things come in three’s—just like the steps of the weekly review: Get Clear Get Current Get Creative Getting work done First get clear. Collect everything in one place—the loose bits of paper, assignments, toys, (school) books and randomly …
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Don't Miss Out: Free Executive WorkFlow Coaching Contest Entry Deadline Ends Soon!
In case you live under a rock and only check your email and RSS feeds every other week you might not have heard about the contest we’re having for a free day of Executive Workflow Coaching courtesy of the David Allen Company and GTDtimes. This is your chance to have one of David’s personally certified …
