Wow! What an amazing turnout! We’ve finally selected our winner and the runners up in the GTDtimes / David Allen Company Executive Workflow Contest. You guys certainly didn’t make it easy. We were overwhelmed at the number of high quality entries from the GTDtimes readership. .

There are so many people with compelling reasons as to why they needed coaching and interesting jobs that they’re doing that we could easily have awarded ten days of coaching! Well, maybe next time. For now here are your winners and the runners up:

Grand Prize Winner: Jeff Goza – Jeff wins a full day of executive workflow coaching at his home or office as well as the full cost for the coach to travel to his location and any other expenses incurred in the course of providing Jeff with his full day of training.

Upon learning that he’d won, Jeff had the following to say:

“My name is Jeff Goza. I have the pleasure of working at a facility that serves over 500 men & women with Mental Retardation. We provide 24/7 care to those who can’t care for themselves due to various mental & physical issues. As you can imagine, our workload is high and many of the things we do can literally be life & death issues for those we serve.”

“My experience with GTD has been very helpful since I read “THE BOOK” and started implementing many of the GTD principles. Like others, I have fallen off the wagon numerous time but with the help of the GTD Community and rereading various chapters I have been able to come back into the fold. I have struggled with various parts of the system as I try to fit into my day-to-day work but I have found GTD to be flexible enough that it can be done.”

“I am very grateful to the David Allen Company and GTDtimes for making the opportunity for Executive Coaching available. I will look forward to writing a full accounting of my day in the near future.”

First Runners Up: The below-named runners up will each receive free registration for a regularly scheduled David Allen Company public seminar to be used before the end of 2009.

Ran Barton
William Brown
Mike McCollum

Second Runners Up: The below-named individuals will each receive a copy of David Allen’s recent GTD Live Ten CD Set from the David Allen GTD Online Store.

Congratulations to all our winners! Well Done!

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You’re going to want to be sure that GTDtimes is either in your RSS reader, linked via your iGoogle or NetVibes page, that you’ve subscribed by email. The point is we’ve got some content in the hopper that you’re going to want to read.

First, we’re going to announce the big winners in the GTDtimes/David Allen Company Executive Workflow Coaching Contest. Second, seeing as how they are so popular with our readers we’ll be giving away another great book and third and most exciting we’ll be posting a brand new hour long interview that I just conducted with David. (I assume by now that everyone knows that when say “David” it means THE DAVID aka Mr. David Allen).

I’m excited about this interview which is exclusive to GTDtimes. David was kind enough to spend a full hour letting my pepper him with questions. We spent a long time discussing software, especially his new concept of “the five I’s” and we delved into some other interesting stuff besides. I won’t say more know but check back in so you don’t miss this great information.

One last note, for those of you that won a copy of “The Myth of Multitasking” don’t forget you promised to share some of what you learned with GTD readers.  So far I haven’t heard a peep.  This is your little nagging reminder - be sure to put it in your “next actions list”.  Thanks.

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In case you live under a rock and only check your email and RSS feeds every other week you might not have heard about the contest we’re having for a free day of Executive Workflow Coaching courtesy of the David Allen Company and GTDtimes.

This is your chance to have one of David’s personally certified GTD Workflow Coaches come to your home or office location and spend a full day helping you implement or fine tune your GTD workflow. The prize includes the full cost of a day of coaching including the expense to bring the coach to your specified locale.

It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to save thousands of dollars on training that has the potential to change your life by making your radically more productive. The testimonials that we’ve heard from people that have experienced this life-enhancing training are nothing short of amazing. Wouldn’t you like to add your testimonial to the list?

Well don’t delay. We’re only acceptling entries until the end of the day on October 24th so hurry over to this site and fill out an entry. THere’s nothing to buy and the hoops you have to jump through and very small. Even a caveman could do it - whether a caveman can practice GTD is debatable, however.

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Yes!  You heard it correctly.  One lucky person is going to win a full day of Workflow Coaching with one of David Allen’s executive coaches.  This is the same coaching that the David Allen Company provides to executives in some of the world’s most progressive organizations…

Now - courtesy of  GTDtimes - one lucky person is going to cash in big and get this life changing experience absolutely free.  This prize includes the complete cost (travel, etc.) for the executive coach to come to your office  and spend a full day with you to fine tune your  GTD System, work through your current projects list, capture your commitments, blaze through piles of stuff that have been there for way too long and generally help you  to become a lean, mean, productive machine.

So if you’re the sort of person that thinks that a day with a world class GTD professional would do you some good here’s what you have to do to enter:

1. Click on this link:  <GTD Executive Workflow Contest>
2. Fill out the questionnaire (it’s short and painless, we promise)
3. Explain in fifty words or less why you think a day of workflow coaching would change your life or send in a picture of your office with a caption that sums it up (please email your image and caption to    editor at GTDtimes dot com)
4. Wait patiently to be notified who got the big win

That’s it.  Nothing to mail. No purchase necessary either.  The team at GTDtimes and the David Allen Company will select the winner from all entries within one  week of the close of the contest. *

In addition to the Grand Prize there will also be a number of “runner up” prizes awarded to a few lucky people chosen at random.

Be sure to get your entries in by October 24th, 2008  so that you don’t miss your chance to win big.  Finally, be sure to subscribe to GTDtimes via RSS or email so that you don’t miss out on other contests or special events in the near future.

If you enjoy this publication, please help spread the word.  Would someone you know appreciate the information and advice that you get from GTDtimes?  Don’t keep us a secret!

*Please note the decision of the team at GTDtimes and the David Allen Company are final.  Employees of the David Allen Company and GTDtimes as well as their families are not eligible for this contest. For this contest you must live in the United States to be eligible.  Winners will be  announced on GTDtimes and the individual winners will also be notified by email and will have 48 hours in which to respond to claim the day of coaching. If the prize is not claimed within the 48 hour period, the offer will be rescinded and another winner will be declared. The coaching day must be completed by December 31, 2008. This coaching day has no cash value and may not be transferred, sold or otherwise assigned.
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Okay, after a brief hiatus, I figured I would try another contest to guess the theme running across these three videos (by the way, we still don’t have a winner for the video in the link in the middle of this sentence).  The first person who posts a comment* with the correct answer (to either this week, or the earlier one, or both) will win a prize from the David Allen Company.  Everyone else that posts an incorrect guess will have their name entered into a drawing for another prize also from the David Allen Company.  This drawing will be done at the end of August and will include everyone that has posted a comment/guess for any of the Sunday Video Contests.

In case you are wondering, it’s worth it to take the time to guess. Previous prizes have included things such as complete CD sets of In Conversation with David Allen, and other similar items that you probably don’t have but are likely to enjoy a great deal if  you’re interested in GTD and David Allen’s thoughts on the subject.

*You can make more than one guess, but each guess must be in a separate comment.  Regardless of how many incorrect guesses an entrant makes, only one entry per week will be added to the end of month prize drawings.

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