I’m going to share some good news with you: The last minute is not always the worst time to do something. A client once shared that there are times when he actually likes to wait to the last minute—his work is better then. It’s more focused, more creative, and more inspired, because of the time …
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Your favorite software tool tailored for GTD
If you’re looking for tips, tricks, and coaching from the experts on using GTD with your favorite software tool, check out our GTD Setup Guides. We currently have GTD guides for these tools: Microsoft Outlook for Windows Microsoft Outlook for Mac Microsoft OneNote for Windows Evernote for Windows Evernote for Mac OmniFocus for Mac Wunderlist for Mac …
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When you truly know what you should be doing
Episode #24 – Making It All Work
Feeling overwhelmed? This talk from David Allen is a wonderful overview of the keys to control & perspective. Includes participant Q&A at the end. Listen Now Subscribe or Download iTunes Stitcher Libsyn Google Play Music Spotify SoundCloud Podcast Transcript GETTING THINGS DONE – MAKING IT ALL WORK; EPISODE 24 DAVID ALLEN: Here’s the issue …
Personal Productivity and the Inner Seven-Year-Old
There seems to be someone about seven years old inside of all of us, who never matures, and whose behavior either allows us lots of creative expansion and productivity, or causes us to crash and burn. It seems that the smart (adult) part of me has known what to do for years. It knows that in …
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When you choose your work…
Why GTD Matters to Your Organization
David Allen shares 3 keys to why GTD matters to your organization. Please accept statistics cookies to watch this video.
Episode #23 – GTD and The Organized Mind
Join David Allen for a fascinating, wide-ranging conversation with Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized Mind. Daniel is a professor of psychology, a cognitive scientist, a musician, an entrepreneur, and more. He brings recent cognitive research to bear on GTD, validating obectively what GTD users know subjectively — that getting things off your mind frees …
Business or Busyness?
Episode #22 – GTD and Balancing Family Life
How do you balance a daunting project list representing multiple roles and outcomes? David Allen chats with Meghan Wilker, a tech expert, mother of two, and GTD enthusiast. Listen as Meghan shares how she uses GTD in her work and family life. Listen Now Subscribe or Download iTunes Stitcher Libsyn Google Play Music Spotify …
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GTD Setup Guides
One of the best ways to implement Getting Things Done is to follow our expert advice in configuring one of the many tools we have found to work well for GTD. See a sample or buy a Guide now. Here are the current GTD Setup Guides available to support you: GTD & Outlook for Windows GTD …
Are you indulging in easy?
GTD® wisdom from David Allen on giving yourself the gift of easy and unplanned Things being simple and easy is not easy, for most of us. The structure of planning what to do and working within structure can be stressful, if not stifling, unless it’s balanced with the unplanned and unstructured. I relish those spontaneous …
Episode #21 – Optimizing Your GTD System
How do you leverage procedures and tools for better outcomes? David Allen presents a webinar on how to optimize your GTD system, so that you have the information you need to be productive, when you need it. Includes Q&A’s from webinar participants. Listen Now Subscribe or Download iTunes Stitcher Libsyn Google Play Music Spotify …
Are you micromanaging your mind?
GTD® wisdom from David Allen on trusting your system and getting to the place where you are truly thinking about things, not of them. One of the greatest traps in growing a business is also a pitfall for self management: if you don’t trust your system, you can’t let go of operational details and you’ll limit …
Episode #20 – Defining Your Areas of Focus
A key to trusting your priorities is knowing your roles, areas to maintain, oversee, and manage—personally and professionally. In this webinar, Senior GTD® Coaches Meg Edwards and Kelly Forrister walk you through developing the Areas of Focus level in the GTD Horizons of Focus® model, giving you examples, best practices, and tips for developing and refining …
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Productivity at its best
Let’s hear it for lazy!
I am the laziest person I’ve ever met. I often admit to that in my courses, and lots of people think that’s the silliest thing they’ve ever heard—they see me as highly focused and productive. But to me “lazy” just means making something happen with as little effort as possible. Perhaps it is equally true …
Quieting the Noise of Your Life
Over the years many people have reported “transformational” experiences in working with the Getting Things Done® methodology. I have seen people lose pounds in just a few days, their faces brighten, their countenance and attitude swing way to the positive, and even make tremendous shifts in how they think and work for the rest of their …
Take a GTD Challenge Around Your “Stuff”
Things do not get rid of themselves. There seems to be a universal law of physics that goes like this: things that exist want to keep existing, even if there’s no good reason. And I think they have strange, secret, invisible agents that lurk in our psyche, planting little numbing seeds like “it’s there, so there …
Episode #18 – Sharing GTD with Kids & Teens
Meg Edwards and Mike Williams share strategies, techniques, and insights for engaging kids and teens in GTD. They’ll weave in personal stories from their own experience as parents, and give practical exercises for bringing the power of GTD to young people in your life. Listen Now Subscribe or Download iTunes Stitcher Libsyn Google …
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