From the Archives: Please enjoy a segment from a webinar David Allen did for our GTD Connect members. It’s a guided mind sweep. It’s a really great opportunity to experience what you’ll find at GTDconnect.com and also be able to walk yourself through this really important practice with your GTD implementation.
Category Archives: Free Resources
Episode #93: Weekly Review
From the Archives: David talks about the value of the GTD Weekly Review®
Episode #92: Action Lists
From the Archives: GTD Coach, Meg Edwards, talks about how you can customize your lists and tells you how she sets up her action lists. Find what works for you.
Episode #91: David Allen Interviews Charles Duhigg
From the Archives: In this episode, David Allen interviews Charles Duhigg as they discuss habits and GTD, from his In Conversation series.
Episode #90: The Outdoor Mind Sweep
In this episode, Meg Edwards shares how she performs an outdoor Mind Sweep. She demonstrates for us how a Mind Sweep can be done anywhere, and how this process can be used to bring additional items to mind when you’re in a given context.
Episode #89: David Allen on How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Taxes…and Everything Else
In this episode we present an excerpt from a talk that David Allen gave in front of a live audience. It covers procrastination, what type of people are the most susceptible to getting stuck, and how to stop procrastinating on your taxes…and everything else.
Episode #88: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Outcome and Action Thinking
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?
Episode #87: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Be Crazy About What Could Be Cool
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.
Episode #86: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Upgrade
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.
Episode #85: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—What’s Really True?
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.
Episode #84: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Clean Up, Close Up
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?
Episode #83: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Get In Your Groove
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.
Episode #82: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Laughter and Soap
At some point you just need to laugh, and you need to clean up.
Episode #81: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—What Are You Learning From This?
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.
Episode #80: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—I Am Unreasonably Joyful
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.
Episode #79: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—The Two-minute Rule
Anything you can do in less than two minutes, if you need to do it at all then do it right then.
Episode #78: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Clean Up Your Computer
Clean up your computer, if you haven’t done this already It’s like when you get your car washed, or your motorcycle washed, it drives better. Well very much the same thing with your computer.
Episode #77: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Areas of Focus, Responsibility, and Interests
Revisit or create an overview of your Areas of Focus, Responsibility, and Interests. It’s a different horizon of your commitments. You’ve got actions you need to take, and you’ve got projects you need to finish. But the reason you have actions, and projects is because they respond to or they relate to areas of focus and interests.
Episode #76: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Get Your Cockpit Under Control
Get your cockpit under control. When you sit down, you are ready to fly, you’re ready to go. You don’t have to rearrange anything in order to be able to do your best work.
Episode #75: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—One Bad Apple Can Spoil the Barrel
There are times when one situation, project, or circumstance that’s particularly important to you, you’re not appropriately engaged with yet can color the whole rest of your life, and make it all feel grey, and solemn, and burdensome. Where as it’s really just one situation that you need to get ahold of.
