Chip Joyce, an Account Executive with the David Allen Company, took this photo of his home office. His comment about the photo was, “I’m violating a GTD best practice: something’s on my desk that’s not reference, equipment, decoration, or supplies.”
Our friends at Think Visual developed this cool visual harvest of a recent GTD Weekly Review webinar. It really captures the creative fun you can have while getting your weekly review productivity boost.
Click on Start Prezi in the center of the screen. When it starts in a couple seconds, you can advance the slides manually by clicking on the arrow, or choose Autoplay from the lower-right. You’ll see it zoom into each step, and you may still want to click the full screen option. Enjoy!
Epipheo.TV talked with David Allen about how to hack through your to-do list and free up your mind to focus on what’s most important to you. It’s a very short, very fun video.
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GTD can help you sleep better. Write stuff down to get it off your mind. Then process it into your trusted GTD system so you don’t have to wake up thinking about it in the middle of the night.
Courtesy of the Getting Things Done – Official GTD Page on Facebook, sharing a post from Grammarly.
Autumn is one of the four most likely seasons for procrastination to show up. If you’re curious about why bright people like Gwendolyn procrastinate the most, have a look at chapter 12 of David Allen’s Getting Things Done.
Used with permission from Debbie Ridpath Ohi at Inkygirl.com.
Did you catch last night’s episode of The Office? Darryl was carrying around a copy of David Allen’s Getting Things Done, and talking about productivity improvements. Here’s the episode, with the first appearance of GTD about 2 minutes in.
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The GTD Natural Planning Model is a great way to plan any project. A key step in the model, after deciding on the purpose and sucessful outcome, is to do some brainstorming. Here’s a key for successful brainstorming: Have lots of ideas! How? By encouraging everyone to present their ideas without censoring. Sometimes the apparently bad ideas need to get expressed to clear the way for the obviously good ideas. In the brainstorming phase, do your best to encourage complete expression, be open, non-judgmental, and resist critical analysis. Don’t worry—an idea that really doesn’t fit will get sorted out in the organizing and next action phases. And who knows? The idea that doesn’t fit for this project may be just what is needed for another project.
One of our younger fans describes how he uses GTD to make amazing things happen.
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This is a Community Contribution from Mike Vardy
Some people need silence to be productive. Some people need music. Some people need an extreme amount of light. Some people don’t need anything specific. Some people don’t need anything at all.
To anyone who falls into one “some” category, they are not likely to fall into another. There’s a subjective nature to working environments. The same goes for distractions.
