We’ve added more cities and dates to our schedule of one-day GTD® Mastering Workflow seminars. You can click on the city and date that interest you to get details and register.

Newport Beach, CA — June 27
Austin, TX — June 27
Portland, OR — July 16
Tampa, FL — July 18
Columbus, OH — July 25
Richmond, VA — August 8
Vancouver, BC — August 15
Indianapolis, IN — August 22

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Question: How should I choose which system to use (digital vs. paper)?

David Allen’s answer: Pay attention to your intuition, or just simply ask yourself, “What do I feel like using as a system?” We’ve discovered people tend to resist the GTD® implementation process enough as it is, so you need all the help you can get to be motivated to work the system. If you know you’d like to be digital, don’t waste time on a paper system. But if you like the look and touch and feel of a cool notebook, go for it. No system works unless you work it.

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We’ve just added some new GTD webinars to our June/July schedule. These 60–75 minute presentations are an ideal way to learn GTD skills, in an engaging and interactive virtual format.

GTD & OmniFocus® — June 5
Keys to Getting Things Done — June 6
Guided GTD Mind Sweep — June 13
Guided GTD Weekly Review — June 27
GTD & iPhone® — July 11
Keys to Getting Things Done — July 18
GTD & Outlook® — July 25

We invite you to join us online for the next step in your GTD journey.  Learn more or register now.

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We have three terrific public GTD webinars coming up in April. These webinars are 60-75 minutes long, and are held via GoToWebinar.  Tuition is $49 per registration.

• Keys to Getting Things Done on April 11
• Managing Email on April 18
• Guided GTD Weekly Review on April 25

Click here to learn more about GTD webinars.

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David Allen outlines the steps to get clear, current, and creative on a regular basis.  Grab the free GTD Weekly Review® checklist. Now available as a PDF download.
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The GTD Mastering Workflow seminar is coming to New Orleans on March 14th!  Learn the foundations of GTD in this wonderful destination city.  If you’re just getting started with GTD, this is a perfect opportunity to get your system off the ground. If you’re experienced with GTD, it’s a great time to identify any gaps in your systems for greater productivity.  This one-day presentation is packed with practical recommendations and suggestions about how to put the proven GTD principles to work for you—at work, at home and in everything you do.

Sign up now to get the early registration discount.

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Cue released data, and The Atlantic commented on it, showing that most of us wrote a novel’s worth of email last year.

What’s more surprising is that we received more than six times as much email as we sent. Even if you deleted some of that email without needing to read it, you probably read several novel’s worth of email last year.

If you’re still not handling email as efficiently as you can be, try a 60-minute webinar on email management. The focus will include structuring your email system to support action management, and dealing with backlog email.

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A participant in our last “Keys to Getting Things Done” webinar said: “This was a GREAT use of my time and money…very excited to begin implementing GTD in my life.”

Get excited about your GTD implementation in our upcoming Keys webinars on February 7th or 27th.

Click here to learn more or register now.

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Comment from a new GTDer: I feel like I’ll spend all my time maintaining these lists recommended in the book!

David Allen’s reply: If by “maintaining” the lists you mean, “write action reminders down in a retrievable place that you’ll look at when you need to,” then it’s not going to take you nearly as much time, effort, and stress as filing it in your head, constantly feeling pressured about what’s in there, and having the thought occur again (and again, and again) in your mind because it doesn’t trust your system.

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Question: Can I edit the Next Action list contexts you recommend in the Getting Things Done book?

David’s Answer:  There are no hard rules about these context categories. You might have action lists specific to more than one office or home location; or you might want to combine At Computer and At Office; or distinguish between Web-Access Computer vs. Offline Computer.

You have to navigate among: How many different ways do I want to keep all these different segments? How easily do I want to be able to review them? And how confusing is it if I put too many things together in one list? I recommend you just get started, try out the most common ones (Agendas, Anywhere, Calls, Computer, Home, Errands, Office), and give yourself permission to change or enhance your system to fit your world as you move forward.

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