Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times Archives - Getting Things Done® https://gettingthingsdone.com/category/two-minute-tips-for-turbulent-times/ David Allen's GTD® Methodology Thu, 16 Jul 2020 04:26:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Episode #88: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Outcome and Action Thinking https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/outcome-and-action-thinking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=outcome-and-action-thinking https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/outcome-and-action-thinking/#respond Sat, 30 May 2020 22:33:42 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=20061 What would you like to have true? Instead of whatever is currently true. And how do you need to reallocate, or allocate your attention, your activities, your resources, to make that happen?

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/outcome-and-action-thinking/feed/ 0 Episode #88: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Outcome and Action Thinking - Getting Things Done® David Allen discusses mental RAM, rapid refocusing, and checklists, and how they relate to GTD and performance improvement. mental RAM rapid refocusing and Checklists Episode #87: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Be Crazy About What Could Be Cool https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/be-crazy-about-what-could-be-cool/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=be-crazy-about-what-could-be-cool https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/be-crazy-about-what-could-be-cool/#respond Sat, 30 May 2020 22:30:37 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=20057 We grow with challenges, so the challenges that we may all be in right now or experiencing in some way, shape, or form they're going to teach a strength, patience, and tolerance I've discovered after my 75 years. That tends to show up and expand, and kind of add to the quality of my life. Add to the relaxation of my life. Add to the focus of my life.

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/be-crazy-about-what-could-be-cool/feed/ 0 Episode #87: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Be Crazy About What Could Be Cool - Getting Things Done® David Allen discusses mental RAM, rapid refocusing, and checklists, and how they relate to GTD and performance improvement. mental RAM rapid refocusing and Checklists Episode #86: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Upgrade https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/upgrade/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=upgrade https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/upgrade/#respond Sat, 30 May 2020 22:27:02 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=20049 I need to upgrade my computer. I need to upgrade my operating system. I need to upgrade this piece of software. I need to upgrade any of my technology, and any of my tools.

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/upgrade/feed/ 0 Episode #86: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Upgrade - Getting Things Done® David Allen discusses mental RAM, rapid refocusing, and checklists, and how they relate to GTD and performance improvement. mental RAM rapid refocusing and Checklists Episode #85: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—What’s Really True? https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/whats-really-true/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-really-true https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/whats-really-true/#comments Fri, 29 May 2020 19:45:40 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=20044 Just say what's really true right now. Because you need to know what's the current reality so that you can then move from a ground base of reality. Not from some expectation of that, or generalization of that, or exaggeration of that.

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/whats-really-true/feed/ 1 Episode #85: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—What's Really True? - Getting Things Done® David Allen discusses mental RAM, rapid refocusing, and checklists, and how they relate to GTD and performance improvement. mental RAM rapid refocusing and Checklists Episode #84: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Clean Up, Close Up https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/clean-up-close-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clean-up-close-up https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/clean-up-close-up/#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 19:42:20 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=20040 So look around your environment and say, how functional is it? How useful is it? How current is it in terms of the reality of these things and their meaning to you?

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/clean-up-close-up/feed/ 0 Episode #84: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Clean Up, Close Up - Getting Things Done® David Allen discusses mental RAM, rapid refocusing, and checklists, and how they relate to GTD and performance improvement. mental RAM rapid refocusing and Checklists Episode #83: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Get In Your Groove https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/get-in-your-groove/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=get-in-your-groove https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/get-in-your-groove/#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 19:39:08 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=20036 Well, you may already have a groove, but I imagine your groove has been disturbed to a large degree by whatever has been going on in the world lately. And especially in turbulent times, it's going to disturb your groove. Get into a new one.

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/get-in-your-groove/feed/ 0 Episode #83: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Get In Your Groove - Getting Things Done® David Allen discusses mental RAM, rapid refocusing, and checklists, and how they relate to GTD and performance improvement. mental RAM rapid refocusing and Checklists Episode #82: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Laughter and Soap https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/laughter-and-soap/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=laughter-and-soap https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/laughter-and-soap/#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 19:34:08 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=20032 At some point you just need to laugh, and you need to clean up.

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/laughter-and-soap/feed/ 0 Episode #82: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Laughter and Soap - Getting Things Done® David Allen discusses mental RAM, rapid refocusing, and checklists, and how they relate to GTD and performance improvement. mental RAM rapid refocusing and Checklists Episode #81: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—What Are You Learning From This? https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/what-are-you-learning-from-this/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-are-you-learning-from-this https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/what-are-you-learning-from-this/#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 19:30:10 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=20028 In these kinds of times, that's actually in retrospect when we find out we've learned how to grow. We've expanded. We've stretched ourselves. We've challenged ourselves, we've had to look at things from whole new perspectives.

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/what-are-you-learning-from-this/feed/ 0 Episode #81: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—What Are You Learning From This? - Getting Things Done® David Allen discusses mental RAM, rapid refocusing, and checklists, and how they relate to GTD and performance improvement. mental RAM rapid refocusing and Checklists Episode #80: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—I Am Unreasonably Joyful https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/i-am-unresonably-joyful/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-am-unresonably-joyful https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/i-am-unresonably-joyful/#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 19:15:02 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=20017 Give yourself permission, for at least a minute, to just pretend that there are all kinds of things to be joyful about. So, be unreasonably joyful.

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/i-am-unresonably-joyful/feed/ 0 Episode #80: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—I Am Unreasonably Joyful - Getting Things Done® David Allen discusses mental RAM, rapid refocusing, and checklists, and how they relate to GTD and performance improvement. mental RAM rapid refocusing and Checklists Episode #79: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—The Two-minute Rule https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/the-two-minute-rule-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-two-minute-rule-2 https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/the-two-minute-rule-2/#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 19:12:34 +0000 https://gettingthingsdone.com/?p=20011 Anything you can do in less than two minutes, if you need to do it at all then do it right then.

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2020/05/the-two-minute-rule-2/feed/ 0 Episode #79: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—The Two-minute Rule - Getting Things Done® David Allen discusses mental RAM, rapid refocusing, and checklists, and how they relate to GTD and performance improvement. mental RAM rapid refocusing and Checklists