Nate Burgos passed along a great interview he did with Digital Media Project Manager Steve Dale about GTD.  It’s always interesting to hear how others have implemented GTD and what their journey has been. Here’s an excerpt:

What’s your advice to people who aspire to get organized and stick to it?
If you’ve ever wanted to have more time to do the things you really care about, whatever that is, then you owe it to yourself to get organised. The idea that creativity and being organised are somehow mutually exclusive is completely false in my opinion. If you stick with it, GTD becomes a set of habits that helps you to spend more time on the things you’re passionate about. If you get too hung up on the method and peripheral issues such as having the right pen, notebook or file labeler, etc., you’ve fundamentally missed the point.

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How would you know if you were Black Belt with GTD?  In this 2 minute audio clip, David Allen describes what he would see in someone who is at a level of Black Belt mastery with GTD.

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Les McKeown, author of Predictable Success, is hosting a free Teleclass and David Allen is  a panelist.  They will discuss the roadmap to increase (and maintain) your sales, streamline your operations and achieve measurable success.  This is not specifically about GTD, but we wanted to pass it along in case it’s of interest to some of you out there in the midst of change and growth.  Here are the details:

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Les McKeown, author of Predictable Success®, interviewed David Allen recently.  It’s now available in our free public podcast feed.  It’s a great podcast for those of you in rapidly growing companies and changing environments. Listen now>> (37 min)

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Ruud Hein did an interesting and educational interview with David Allen. It’s a quick read. Here’s an excerpt:

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From all my years of working with probably every type of reasonably healthy and effective person, I’ve noticed no particular bias of style that “favors GTD” more than any other.  Of course, the real question inside that:  What is GTD?  If you think it’s about organizing lists, then of course the left-brainers may fall in step. If you say, on the other hand, it’s really about the most effective way to produce and maintain clear psychic space, then the “creatives” will most resonate.  Eliminating static appeals to everyone, in his/her own way, and for his/her own reasons. It ensures close tolerance and closure, and it opens vistas and catalyzes thinking. Could it be that GTD is truly on the nerve of the larger integration of yin/yang, creator/destroyer, right-brain/left-brain, linear/associative polarities? – David Allen

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David Allen was recently interviewed by Scientific American on goal setting.  Do goals really work? Have most people already broken what they set just 3 weeks ago? LISTEN NOW (4 min)

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I recently interviewed Ken Case, CEO for OmniGroup, about the ever popular OmniFocus for Mac.  You’ll hear about the history of OmniGroup, what their company culture is like today, what OmniFocus does for a GTD’er, and more.  Here’s an excerpt:  

Ken Case: The big thing that we tried to do as we were designing the application is really think about the parts of the GTD workflow that we could address, and automate those, and then maybe not try to touch the parts that didn’t make as much sense. For example, we don’t do calendaring; we leave that to whatever calendaring system you already have. I use the calendar app that’s built-in to the iPhone, but you can use a paper calendar or whatever works for you for that part of the system. We do focus on the GTD collecting and processing–capturing stuff out of your head and getting it into your inbox. We tried to make that really easy with a keystroke…

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