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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. …
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 …
Webinar on Maintaining Control & Perspective in the Daily Grind
The next Webinar on GTD Connect, the online learning center for the David Allen Company, will be “Maintaining Control & Perspective in the Daily Grind.” It will be held on Friday, October 15th from 10am-11am Pacific Time. If you feel like your productivity gets hindered by latest and loudest or you don’t feel in control …
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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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David Allen shares why he created GTD Connect
[HTML1] Coming in October to GTD Connect: the continuation of our popular “boot camp” style webinars. Two of our senior coaches lead fast-paced webinars geared toward more advanced GTD implementers. Oct 1 – Creating a Fantastic Workspace Oct 15 – Maintaining Control & Perspective in the Daily Grind Oct 29 – What Really Has Your …
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A GTD enthusiast shares, "I went home and didn’t think ONCE about work"
Cindy recently participated in a GTD course at her company. She sent along an email to her facilitator about her experience. With her permission, we’re sharing her letter with our GTD Times readers. First of all, thanks for a great class! I really enjoyed it. You are an awesome instructor – very engaging and really …
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New A4 version of the GTD & BlackBerry Guide now available
We just released an A4* size of our new GTD & BlackBerry Guide. For those of you who will print the Guide and prefer this size instead of the *210 MM wide and 297 MM tall (about 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inch), used in Europe, and rest of the world, except the US and …
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How do you control paper?
Q: I write down everything but I always seem to end up having problems controlling all the pieces of paper and lists; what are your suggestions? GTD Coach: Writing everything down is a great first step. All those “notes” where you’ve captured and collected what’s in your head, need to be put into an “IN” …
Free Guided Mind Sweep with David Allen
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!)
Update on GTD LinkedIn group
The good news is that we have so many GTD fans on LinkedIn that our GTD enthusiasts group quickly reached 5,000 members. The bad news is that LinkedIn arbitrarily set a 5,000 member limit to groups. So for those of you trying to join the group, you aren’t able to at this time. Please be …
Digging out from backlog
The next Webinar on GTD Connect will be “Digging Out From Backlog”. Two of our senior coaches will give you tips, tricks, and strategies for dealing with your piles of “stuff”. If you feel like your backlog is holding you back from getting the most out of GTD, this Webinar is for you. Free to …
Seminars with David Allen
David Allen will only be doing 3 public seminars this year, so here’s your chance to learn the system with the master himself. The GTD Making It All Work course offers a higher level, more theoretical overview of the GTD concepts. It’s a fun, informative, and engaging day whether you are new to GTD or …
Saying No – Keys from David Allen
Excerpt from David Allen’s essay in this month’s Productive Living newsletter: Deciding that you’re not going to do something is a subtle and critical component of Getting Things Done and is one of the most challenging aspects of self-management. Most of us hate to say “no”—to ourselves and to others. But there are practical things …
You are in control when you can see it all
No matter what level or field we find ourselves on, whether it is the corporate/professional aspect or our personal/home life, we set priorities and act on what we think is important. We could call that “simplifying” our lives. And by that we do not mean lowering our standards, but rather focusing on the ones that …
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The new GTD® Implementation Guide
Hello GTD enthusiasts! David Allen and the team have created a new step-by-step guide for implementing GTD. It’s chock full of helpful tips, instructions, suggested supplies, and even time estimates on how long you can expect each step to take. It’s a terrific way to coach yourself through really getting all aspects of GTD off …
David Allen and Predictable Success
Les McKeown, author of Predictable Success®, interviewed David Allen recently. It’s now available in our free public podcast feed. It’s a great podcast for those of you in rapidly growing companies and changing environments. Listen now>> (37 min)
David Allen @ ASTD
For those of you going to the ASTD conference in Chicago next week, there’s a discussion with David Allen on Tuesday, May 18th @ 10am in the ballroom. Topic is “How Leaders Can Get More Done.”
David Allen on procrastination, Twitter, what’s important to him and more…
Ruud Hein did an interesting and educational interview with David Allen. It’s a quick read. Here’s an excerpt:
The essential GTD skills for a CEO
David Allen on CEO skills
