Want to have more energy and space to do what’s important to you? Consider getting rid of what’s no longer working for you. 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.

DAVID’S FOOD FOR THOUGHT

GOOD RIDDANCE

It’s time to purge.

The end of a year and start of the new is a great metaphorical event you can use to enhance a critical aspect of your constructive creativity—get rid of everything that you can.

Keep reading David’s article.

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This great idea comes from Matt, a GTD enthusiast who has lots of great ideas.

I have some of my best ideas in the shower.  I don’t know if it’s the hot water or the lack of distractions, but things pop into my head and I know that I’ll need to take action on them.  But when I’m halfway through a shower, I only have two choices: try to remember it, or get out and write it down.  Neither really works well. One results in a wet floor, and the other means I spend the rest of my shower anxiously trying not to forget.

Of course, the GTD answer would be to write it down. But pen and paper don’t survive long in the shower.  Fortunately, I remembered that when I’m scuba diving I sometimes carry a small writing slate to more easily communicate underwater.  I grabbed my slate and put it in the shower.

Now, I write down anything that comes to mind when I’m showering.  After I’m dressed for the day, I can grab the slate and add any action items to my queue.

You can get a dive slate from your local dive shop, or from an online store.

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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 on busy days.  Getting Things Done is the “instrument training” that you need to stay on course – especially on those foggy days when life’s runway gets backed up.  – David Allen

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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 focus on two key areas:

• Completing & remember 2010
• Creating the new year

They will lead participants through a series of insightful questions that David Allen created to inspire, challenge and acknowledge.

This will be the last webinar for 2010, finishing up a banner year of webinars for our GTD Connect members.  We did over 20 webinars this year, including 6 in our “Black Belt” series for more advanced GTDers, tactical webinars on tools such as Outlook and Lotus Notes, and hands-on “labs” with David helping people through the fundamentals of making decisions on their stuff.  As a member, you can access all of these in the media library and even take them on the go to watch offline (downloads not available for guest pass members, sorry!).We have many new exciting webinars coming in 2011, including one on OmniFocus.

We wish you all the best.

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We receive many questions about the electronic and international versions of David Allen’s books (Getting Things Done, Ready For Anything, and Making It All Work.)  We’ve compiled some FAQs on the topic that should be be helpful. We will update this post as the information changes and add these to our website FAQs as well.

What formats are available for David Allen’s books, like Getting Things Done?
Formats for David Allen’s books are established entirely by his publisher, Penguin Group, and through the agreements Penguin makes with each foreign publisher.  We are so sorry, but we have no influence over distribution and we are not involved in the process of determining where the books are released.  We do know that availability varies widely by country and distributors. For example, in the U.S., you will find paperback, hardcover, Kindle, ePub and audiobook versions.  This is not the case at all for other countries and download versions in particular are restricted by territory (e.g. someone outside the U.S. cannot download a book from the U.S. Audible.com site.)

Why is the download version more expensive than the paperback version?
We’ve noticed that too!  Unfortunately, pricing for David’s books is out of our control and is entirely set by the publisher, Penguin Group, with the distribution channels where they have released the book. [Read more →]

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