MindSweep Archives - Getting Things Done® David Allen's GTD® Methodology Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:50:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Get it all out of your head https://gettingthingsdone.com/2012/01/get-it-all-out-of-your-head/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=get-it-all-out-of-your-head https://gettingthingsdone.com/2012/01/get-it-all-out-of-your-head/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:18:26 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2012/01/17/ If you’re still relatively careless about having seamless collection tools because they know they don’t represent discrete, whole systems anyway: there’s an incomplete set of things in their inboxes and an incomplete set in their mind, and they’re not getting any payoff from either one, so the thinking goes. It’s like trying to play pinball …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2012/01/get-it-all-out-of-your-head/feed/ 7 GTD Nuggets – Take 5 minutes to make progress on a project https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/10/gtd-nuggets-take-5-minutes-to-make-progress-on-a-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gtd-nuggets-take-5-minutes-to-make-progress-on-a-project https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/10/gtd-nuggets-take-5-minutes-to-make-progress-on-a-project/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:00:57 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=4292 If you take a pen and blank paper, and just spend the next five minutes capturing ideas on the most important project right now for you to make some progress on, you will likely come up with at least one, if not several, “Oh yeah, I could…” items. – David Allen

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/10/gtd-nuggets-take-5-minutes-to-make-progress-on-a-project/feed/ 2 Free Guided Mind Sweep with David Allen https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/07/free-guided-mind-sweep-with-david-allen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-guided-mind-sweep-with-david-allen https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/07/free-guided-mind-sweep-with-david-allen/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:01:58 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=3987 Clear your head with the man himself… This is an GTD Connect, with more added every week. Hook into the most active Getting Things Done community in the world. Check out a free guest pass (no credit card required and we won’t nag you when you’re done!)

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/07/free-guided-mind-sweep-with-david-allen/feed/ 4 Why things crawl back into your mind https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/why-things-crawl-back-into-your-mind/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-things-crawl-back-into-your-mind https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/why-things-crawl-back-into-your-mind/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:40:24 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=2260 Clearing the mind is one of my favorite things with GTD.  You cannot lose. To me, it’s one of the quickest ways to feel better if I’m stressed out, feeling overwhelmed or trying to mentally manage the ankle-biting things that have my attention. In a short period of time, I can sweep my brain of …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/why-things-crawl-back-into-your-mind/feed/ 4 Next GTD Twitter Class – Clearing your mind https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/next-gtd-twitter-class-clearing-your-mind/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=next-gtd-twitter-class-clearing-your-mind https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/next-gtd-twitter-class-clearing-your-mind/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:50:06 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=2251 I will be hosting another free GTD Twitter class this Thursday, October 15th at 9am Pacific Time.  Just 30 minutes of clearing your mind. Here’s the scoop: What: It will be a working Twitter session. I’ll guide people through the GTD Mindsweep process through a series of Tweets.  Mindsweep is part of the Collect phase …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/next-gtd-twitter-class-clearing-your-mind/feed/ 4 GTD – Changing the World by Bringing Change from Within https://gettingthingsdone.com/2008/09/gtd-changing-the-world-by-bringing-change-from-within/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gtd-changing-the-world-by-bringing-change-from-within https://gettingthingsdone.com/2008/09/gtd-changing-the-world-by-bringing-change-from-within/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:37:56 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2008/09/05/gtd-changing-the-world-by-bringing-change-from-within/ A Community Contribution from Arif and Ali Vakil Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you’re completely overwhelmed with all the work that surrounds you? At those times do you then you catch yourself complaining about the outside world “I wish my job wasn’t so demanding”, “I wish there wasn’t so much competition”, …

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