“Priorities are determined from the top down—i.e., your purpose and values will drive your vision of the purpose being fulfilled, which will create goals and objectives, which will frame areas of focus and responsibility. All of those will generate projects, which will require actions to get them done.”

—David Allen, Making It All Work, Appendix vii, Horizons of Focus

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Ever feel like your email processing would be better if your coworkers just sent better emails? David Allen Company is offering a 30-minute Express webinar on this very topic. You’ll hear advice from one of their senior GTD coaches about the best practices for email communications with others—including when to use email, using To vs: Cc, writing effective subject lines, creating agreements about response times, and more.   Get tips you can bring back to your teams for more productive email communication.

Tuesday, November 27th from 10am-10:30am. Open to all GTD Connect members. Not a member? Try a free, two-week guest pass, which makes you eligible to sign up for this webinar. Look for the registration link on the home page after after logging in.

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There are five phases of your GTD workflow: Collect, Process, Organize, Review & Do. For each phase, there are keys that help you get the right things done with less effort.

If you’re new to GTD, try a live webinar on the Keys to Getting Things Done. And if your GTD implementation is already well established, you can refine your system even more.

The overview is here, or you can get details and register by clicking on the date below that works for you.

Thursday, November 15, 10am Pacific Time

Friday, December 7, 10am Pacific Time

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In this free podcast from David Allen, he gives quick tips for getting back “on” when you’ve fallen off the wagon with GTD. At a little more than 2 minutes in length, it’s a bite-sized nugget of inspiration. Available for download now on the David Allen Company podcast page.

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For those of you who use OmniFocus, there’s a brand-new setup guide that describes how best to configure OmniFocus for GTD. The David Allen Company online store has letter and A4 sizes of the guide for sale as PDF downloads. You’ll find information here about the GTD & OmniFocus Setup Guide, as well as other guides. A free sample is also available for download.

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One of our GTD fans on Facebook recently posted about dramatically reducing her email backlog. Good job! How much email backlog do you still have? How would you tackle that as a project? Post a comment about how you would phrase the successful outcome (what does done look like with backlog?), and what your next action is.

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In the Job Market section of the New York Times, you’ll find an interesting article on the value of working with paper. David Allen weighs in on how he uses paper, in addition to doing his writing on a computer.

In Defense of the Power of Paper

By PHYLLIS KORKKI
Published: September 8, 2012

Paper, says the productivity expert David Allen, is “in your face.” Its physical presence can be a goad to completing tasks, whereas computer files can easily be hidden and thus forgotten, he said. Some of his clients are returning to paper planners for this very reason, he added.

Mr. Allen, the author of Getting Things Done, does much of his writing on a computer, but there are still times when writing with a fountain pen on a notepad “allows me to get my head in the right place,” he said.

Read the complete article here.

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You can get practical, targeted GTD training with webinars scheduled in September and October. Choose from these topics: Keys to Getting Things Done®, GTD® & Outlook®, and Guided GTD Weekly Review®.

Whether you are setting up your GTD system for the first time, or want to get better at working what you already have, these webinars are the way to go. You’ll get tips for improving your productivity right away in these lively, interactive, bite-sized chunks of GTD learning.

The overview is here, or you can learn more by clicking on the date below that works for you.

Keys to Getting Things Done
Friday, September 14, from 10:00am-11:00am Pacific Time
Thursday, October 18, from 10:00am-11:00am Pacific Time

GTD & Outlook
Friday, October 26, from 10:00am-11:00am Pacific Time

Guided GTD Weekly Review
Friday, September 28, from 10:00am-11:00am Pacific Time

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Here’s concise advice from David Allen, on asking yourself two questions that can calm the waters of your mind.

Everything that is outstanding in your world and mind, that hasn’t been somehow put onto “cruise control,” will be holding some part of your psyche hostage.

So, simply ask yourself, “What has my attention now?” And then ask, “What do I need to decide, do, handle, and organize, to be able to have my mind let that go?”

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A recent comment on our Facebook page asked about the best app to sync Android with Outlook.  Anyone on GTD Times have an opinion about that?

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