Q: Do you have any pointers for perfectionists? David Allen: Just focus on doing the next action perfectly, which is a lot easier than trying to be perfect about how you approach something bigger. Be as retentive as you want. The only problem is when it stops action. Be a perfectionist about the process, which …
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David Allen presents for ASTD
ASTD is hosting a free Webinar with David Allen next Wednesday for its members. Visit ASTD site to learn more.
A ton of FREE GTD Resources
Here is a list of all of the FREE GTD resources offered by the David Allen Company: GTD Times – This is the the official blog for the David Allen Company. Loads of helpful advice, tips, special offers, tricks & strategies for implementing GTD. Podcasts – Includes the GTD best practices series with David & …
New GTD Workflow Diagram
For years, the GTD Workflow diagram has been the ultimate “trail guide” for navigating through the collect>process>organize stages of GTD. Over the past two years, David Allen has been working with the terrific design team at xplane to take his vision (his original sketch is pictured right and you can click on the image to …
More confidence, more ideas and more money…
A GTD’er in the U.K. wrote to David Allen recently to share his success–personally and professionally–in implementing GTD. We thought you’d appreciate hearing what he learned in the process. Dear David, Just wanted to drop an email of appreciation. Guess you get these all the time. In 2006, a freelance website designer friend recommend your …
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Tracking Projects in Outlook
A Microsoft Outlook user recently asked one of our coaches: After working with the GTD system for quite awhile, I find tracking next actions in Outlook to be pretty easy. The harder part is tracking projects. Where do you do that and how do you move from the 10,000 level (projects) to the runway (actions)? …
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 …
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!”
Better workflow with better deskflow
GTD’er Grant recently wrote to David Allen to share his “Drag Reduction Project” for improving his GTD workflow. I realized my physical work area did not support my GTD systematic approach. I cleared my desk and used my label maker to visually make areas of the desk to support how I work. So far this …
How I Got a Grip on My Workweek
One of the David Allen Company senior coaches recently worked with Business Week Executive Editor Ellen Joan Pollock. Read Ellen’s entertaining account of how she got a grip on her workweek. The goal: 10 extra hours in my week. The plan of attack: none. That’s pretty much where I was when Marian Bateman, a productivity …
Truly Ready for Anything: an image from a Summit Attendee
If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one basically says it all. What could better illustrate the value of GTD than someone like Steve Pugh, pictured below, on duty in Iraq with a copy of “Getting Things Done” at his fingertips. Steve was just at the recent GTD Global Summit and took the …
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GTD Global Summit: Entrepreneurship – Make it Up and Make it Happen
This post rambles a bit as it’s a live blogging effort to cover the real key questions and associated answers that this group of accomplished entrepreneurs provided during an hour plus panel discussion about the trials and tribulations of starting your own company. Topics included what personality characteristics should you have to thrive as an …
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We're Live! The GTD Global Summit T-0
After more than a year of planning thousands of hours of meetings and more emails, phone calls, and late night conversations than anyone cares to think about let alone remember, the GTD Global Summit has come to life in a huge way. I’m wearing several hats here so my coverage will be as real time …
GTD and the 4 Hour Work Week by Erik Hanberg
A Community Contribution by Erik Hanberg January’s Wired magazine carried an article by freelancer Chris Hardwick testing out different systems for helping him structure his work and life better. He sums up: Now, I know that David Allen is the head vampire of productivity, but if you only have the fortitude to read a single …
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An example of GTD on the Web
Editor’s Note: This is a piece by a new GTD Times Contributor, David Pierce. David is a unique contributor to GTDtimes due to the fact that he’s about half of the age of the typical reader of this site. We love his fresh perspective and the fact that he represents the first generation to have …
Meaning, Neatness and Organization
I had one of those “why didn’t I make the connection before? It’s so obvious!” moments recently, while thinking through a chapter of my book-in-progress. The three things I connected were David Allen’s subtle definition of organization: “where things are suits what they mean to you,” James C. Scott’s masterpiece on how governments develop an …
Confused by Conflicting Priorities? Here's a Five-Point Checklist that Can Help
A Community Contribution by Arif & Ali Vakil Practicing GTD makes choosing what to do at any given moment in time considerably easier. The three models that David Allen has framed for identifying priorities (ie Horizons of Focus, Limiting Criteria and Three-Fold Nature of Work) are brilliant. However, even after you’ve earned your GTD Blackbelt, …
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Want eProductivity? Want to Go to the GTD Summit Free? Now's Your Chance.
Eric Mack, the individual behind David Allen’s new favorite tool, eProductivity, has got a pretty amazing promotion going over at his site right now. The first ten people to take advantage of his special offer will get a free pass to the GTD Global Summit. If you want to get eProductivity at the best price …
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A Meeting With Summit Speaker Major General Randall Fullhart
Editor’s Note: Over the next two weeks we’ll be providing some advanced coverage of the GTD Global Summit so that you can get some idea of what to expect (and what those of you foolish enough to miss this event will be missing) as well as whom to expect it from. Following a brief bio …
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Productivity 101 Blogs David's "Making it All Work" Seminar in Amsterdam
Fokke Kooistra, author of the popular “Productivity 101” blog as well as a former contributor to GTDtimes recently attended one of David’s new “Making it All Work” seminars recently. Below is an excerpt of his thoughts on this experience. To read his full review, please visit Fokke’s site directly at right here. was visiting the …
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