Meg Edwards, one of our senior coaches, created some fantastic coaching videos with the team at Netcentrics–makers of the Getting Things Done Outlook Add-In.  If you use this tool, you’ll find these to be a great series for learning to get the most out of this tool for your GTD system.  Even if you don’t use this tool, there is gold to be mined in Meg talking about the best practices of using Outlook.

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(GTD Connect members can watch these inside the Connect Media Library)

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Is GTD too structured for creative people? Will it work if you don’t like rigid schedules and plans?  Could an artist possibly “do” GTD.

Coach Julie Ireland weighs in:

I tend to rebel against too much structure/planning. At the same time I do need a certain amount of structure, otherwise my creative energy gets drained from the uncertainty of not being clear about what my commitments are. The beauty of GTD lies in putting enough time and energy into what we call “defining our work and responsibilities”, so that when we have discretionary time we can choose very consciously and purposely to work off of our pre-defined lists, or in my case go and play in my art studio. There is real power in making that choice as the most appropriate thing for me to do, vs. attempting to work in my studio because I’m either avoiding my responsibilities or simply haven’t defined them clearly enough.

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Today we started shipping the new GTD Workflow Map and Coaching DVD.  This new training product, as many of you know, has been a labor of love (and patience!) for us.  Our team is just ecstatic to have this in stock.  A surprisingly large, and gratifying, number of first orders are queued up and ready to go outside our Ojai warehouse.  (The look on the Fedex person’s face when they come for the pickup might be an even more interesting photo!)

Early feedback on this new training product has been fantastic.  It’s not just a re-do of the workflow diagram that’s in the GTD book–it’s a new map that really encompasses much more of the GTD story on control + perspective, as well as a DVD of David navigating the way.  Big thanks to the creative folks at XPLANE too for taking David’s vision on this and turning it into a fun new way to learn.

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A GTD’er wrote to David Allen asking:

I am part of the senior management in a company and am responsible for a particular department. With many changes happening in the company such as growth and expansion, in a very short span of time, things happen ad hoc and lot of time gets spent in miscellaneous activities. This ad hoc confusion de-motivates me and does not give me a purpose to work in the interest of the company, as a lot of this work is thankless in nature. Hence, how should I address this?  Should I ask my CEO for direction and let him know about things not being interesting or do I have to motivate myself to drive and take charge of the situation and take the growth process ahead?  What is your suggestion?

David replied:

You have asked a very good question, but one that I can only feed back options. Much depends on the bigger questions about what’s important to you and where you’re going. If your long-term goal is clear enough, [Read more →]

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For those of you on LinkedIn who want to connect with other GTD’ers, we now have an official GTD LinkedIn Network.

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