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Category Archives: David Allen
David Allen talks about avoiding burnout
MSNBC featured David Allen on their Daily Rundown show this week talking about productivity, Getting Things Done®, and avoiding burnout. Here’s the 5 minute video with David from the broadcast: [HTML1] (The video is streaming from MSNBC, so you may need to give it a moment to load.)
Good riddance!
In the latest issue of Productive Living, David Allen shares some ideas that help you wrap up the current year and get ready for the next.
Where top-down approaches bog down
Top-down approaches are excellent for improving your vision, but there’s no weather at 50,000 feet! As you descend from these high, “planning altitudes,” they give no instruments for flying at “project altitudes” – through cloud cover at 10,000 feet, and the ground fog on the runway. Top-down approaches bog down during taxi, take-off, and landing …
Doing a Year End Review
Two of our senior David Allen Company coaches will be leading a webinar on doing a year end review, next Tuesday, December 7th from 10am-11am pacific time. Free for all GTD Connect members, including those on a guest pass. Login to GTD Connect to register through the link on the home page. The webinar will …
What Tim gets out of GTD Connect
By now, many of you have heard of GTD Connect–our online learning center. We wanted to share a great video from one of our members about what he gets out of his Connect membership. Here’s what Tim, a pastor, had to say: Please accept statistics cookies to watch this video. GTD Connect is $480 a …
GTD Nuggets – Getting to the not-so-critical stuff
Every once in a while, schedule a day for the not-so-critical stuff. Otherwise the got-to’s can eat up your whole life, and the secondary things then become annoying got-to’s later on, or just create a frustration factor that mounts up. – David Allen
The new "GTD Managing Projects" set is now available!
We’re excited to announce that our new 6-CD audio set on the GTD best practices for managing your projects is now available in the David Allen Company store. We’ve compiled all of the GTD best practices and common questions. It’s a great way to get control of your projects and manage them seamlessly–the GTD …
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GTD Nuggets – Getting your email to zero
Scanning an email and leaving it in “In” because it’s not as important as other emails at the moment creates double reading, double thinking, and double decision-making (not to mention the nagging it creates in the psyche in the meantime.) – David Allen
When do you call something a project?
Here’s a sneak peak at our new GTD® Managing Projects Audio Set releasing soon. This new set includes 6 CDs chock full of a tips, tricks and education on the GTD models for seamlessly managing your projects. You’ll hear from David Allen and two senior coaches on the best practices and common questions people implementing …
A reader shares about GTD as brain exercise
GTD and mindfulness are to the mind as cardio and weights are to the body.
GTD Nuggets – How to Know if You’re Organized
You are disorganized if you need something somewhere that you don’t have or have something somewhere that you don’t need.
David Allen's 5 Productivity Tips in PC World
PC World asked David Allen to name five tips for productivity. The focus is on productivity within the Windows environment, but several tips apply to Mac as well.
David Allen’s video from the Do Lectures
David Allen was a speaker at the Do Lectures this summer in Wales. The Do lectures are all about getting a handful of speakers together in one place, in the hope that they may inspire you to go Do something. To give you the tools and the desire to change the things you care about. …
GTD Nuggets – Take 5 minutes to make progress on a project
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
What are the best tools for GTD?
GTD is an approach that is not tool-specific. So while it’s important to land on gear (paper or digital) that will stand up to the complexity of your work and personal life, it’s more important that it clearly serves the purpose of reflecting the reminders and information in the most appropriate way for you. The …
David Allen shares what Getting Things Done is really about
David Allen was at BizConf 2010 this year. Here’s what he had to say to Hashrocket in a drive by interview: [HTML1]
Organizing your projects list
Dear David Allen: What do you recommend to organize the Projects list in order to quickly find a particular project? David: If you’re using a software application for managing lists, and if it can sort the list alphabetically, then get in the habit of writing the key word about the project first, so you can …
David Allen’s journey of writing Getting Things Done
Studio Edrisa, an East African multimedia team who produces a weekly radio show called Planet Edirisa, interviewed David Allen about his work and bestselling book Getting Things Done. Here’s an excerpt of the interview: Did your philosophy come together before you actually wrote the book “Getting Things Done”? The book was really written after 20 …
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How to effectively use your mind
“Use your mind to think about your work, instead of thinking of it. Your mind does not remember or remind very well, compared to what a good system can manage. What it does do well is review options and available information and then put together “how-tos.” It’s not free to do that if it’s trying …
