You can participate in special GTD® webinars featuring two of the most popular and requested topics:  Keys to Mastering Workflow and Implementing GTD with Microsoft Outlook.  These webinars are presented a la carte for $49 each.

GTD Webinar: Keys to Mastering Workflow

Offered live only on Tuesday, November 29^th or Tuesday, December 13^th from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm PT

This fast-paced and inspirational webinar is based on the best practices of GTD’s five phases of mastering workflow. From capturing everything that has your attention to making trusted choices – this webinar will elevate your productivity levels and prepare you to get the right things done.

GTD Webinar: Implementing GTD with Outlook®

Offered live only on Thursday, December, 1^st or Thursday, December 15^th from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm PT

Join this structured and practical webinar to learn to effectively track projects and next actions, set up your email folders, and create a system for reference storage on Outlook. Get your life in control by managing your bigger vision while tracking the small details. 

Note: These webinars will be held live only and will not be available for replay. Don’t miss your opportunity to learn from an expert coach through these live events.

Register now for these live 90-minute interactive webinars. To increase learning and interaction, implementation questions via chat will be encouraged and answered throughout the webinars.

DAVID’S FOOD FOR THOUGHT

GETTING FREE

One of the reasons the GTD approach can be so empowering comes down to a simple, primal dynamic: When something is named, it is known; and when it is known, its hold on us is released. When things we have allowed into our inner or outer world are appropriately and accurately identified, we feel curiously freed from them. It’s all about clarifying what things mean to us and sorting them in our world appropriately.

Do you have any projects that you haven’t identified as projects yet? Got anything you’ve been thinking that needs clarification, resolution, or looking into, that you don’t have on a Projects list yet, that you look at regularly to keep actions moving toward?

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DAVID’S FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Processing your work is part of your work

I’m struggling with my impatience. I’m not as neutral as I’d like to be yet about how many professionals regard their inbox processing time as “extra” work that they can’t find time to do.

The stress many people feel can be directly attributed to the avoidance of daily and weekly catching up—with the flood of emails, voice mails, meetings, projects, and other informational and actionable items.

Most people behave as if this stuff is relatively unimportant. I argue that it’s where much of their primary value lies. Knowledge workers are paid to bring their intelligence to bear on input, and improve things by doing that. The decision about what to do with an email and its contents, what it means in terms of the work and standards at hand, is knowledge work.

Keep reading David’s article.

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DAVID’S FOOD FOR THOUGHT

What’s needed and not needed for projects

Many professionals and their company cultures seem addicted to the organizing of projects and situations. Or at least addicted to feeling the need to organize them, and feeling guilty if they’re not. But organizing the structure and components is only one of the five levels of thinking that must be clear . . .

Keep reading David’s article.

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DAVID’S FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Getting GTD onto cruise control

If you’re like most people who’ve begun the implementation of the GTD^® methods, you’ve had some starts and stops in your journey. While my approach is really nothing more than advanced common sense, doing these practices consistently requires some re-grooving of your behavioral patterns. And some of those, though not optimally productive, are likely deeply rooted. How does “doing GTD” become second nature—something you live by but rarely even think about?

Keep reading David’s article.

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Aside from the fact that the volume of what people need to organize is often light-years beyond what they imagine, there is much more to getting a grip on your “work” than most realize. Managing the flow of work can be approached from many altitudes, as there are many different levels of defining what your “work” really is. Whereas we may have some lower levels in control, there are often incomplete and unclear issues at higher levels that can and need to be addressed, to really get it all under control. And often there are issues about the nature and volume of work that cannot be resolved viewing it from an inappropriate level. We have roughly categorized “work” into six levels, or horizons of focus.

This is admittedly a somewhat arbitrary delineation, but it has proven valuable for many clients to frame their conversations, questions, and issues within this context. We use an airplane model:

Runway:
This is the ground floor – the huge volume of actions and information you currently have to do and to organize, including emails, calls, memos, errands, stuff to read, stuff to file, things to talk to staff about, etc. If you got no further input in your life, this would likely take you 300-500 hours to finish. Just getting a complete and current inventory of the next actions required at this level is quite a feat.

10,000 level:
This is the inventory of your projects – all the things that you have commitments to finish, that take more than one action step to complete.  These “open loops” are what create most of your actions. These projects include anything from “look into having a birthday party for Susan” to “buy Acme Brick Co.” Most people have between 30 and 100 of these. If you were to fully and accurately define this list, it would undoubtedly generate many more and different actions than you currently have identified.

20,000 level:
What’s your job? Driving the creation of a lot of your projects are the four to seven major areas of responsibility that you at least implicitly are going to be held accountable to have done well, at the end of some time period, by yourself if not by someone else (e.g. boss.) With a clear and current evaluation of what those areas or responsibility are, and what you are (and are not) doing about them, there are likely new projects to be created, and old ones to be eliminated.

30,000 level:
Where is your job going? What will the role you’re in right now be looking like 12-18 months from now, based on your goals and on the directions of the changes at that level? We’ve met very few people who are doing only what they were hired to do.  These days, job descriptions are moving targets. You may be personally changing what you’re doing, given personal goals; and the job itself may need to look different, given the shifting nature of the work at the departmental or divisional level. Getting this level clear always creates some new projects and actions.

40,000 level:
The goals and direction of the larger entity within which you operate heavily influence your job and your professional direction. Where is your company going to be, one to three years from now? How will that be affecting the scope and scale of your job, your department, and your division? What external factors (like technology) are influencing the changes? How is the definition and relationship with your customers going to be changing, etc.? Thinking at this level invariably surfaces some projects that need to be defined, and new action steps to move them forward.

50,000 level:
What is the work you are here to do on the planet, with your life? This is the ultimate bigger picture discussion. Is this the job you want? Is this the lifestyle you want? Are you operating within the context of your real values, etc.? From an organizational perspective, this is the Purpose and Vision discussion. Why does it exist? No matter how organized you may get, if you are not spending enough time with your family, your health, your spiritual life, etc., you will still have “incompletes” to deal with, make decisions about, and have projects and actions about, to get completely clear.

Atlanta – Jan 25, 2011

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Seattle – Feb 24, 2011

London – Mar 3, 2011

Washington DC – Mar 11, 2011

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Washington DC – Jun 24, 2011

This is a very tactically oriented, hands-on seminar on how to get your GTD system up and running. You will learn the fundamental GTD thinking process and start to build a trusted workflow system. Led by our senior presenters, who have extensive experience working with a wide range of people and organizations around the world. This one-day presentation is packed with practical recommendations and suggestions about how to put GTD to work for you—at work, at home and in everything you do.

We’re adding new locations all of the time, so be sure to check the schedule often, or subscribe to Productive Living, for a city near you!

We are always happy for your suggestions too.  Please leave a comment letting us know where you’d like to attend a GTD seminar.

Capture everything that has your attention

Decide exactly what each item means

Organize the results in appropriate places

Review & reflect at each horizon

Make trusted choices about what to Do

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First of all, thanks for a great class!  I really enjoyed it.  You are an awesome instructor – very engaging and really good at demonstrating practical applications of the GTD concept.

I will admit that I was a bit skeptical about the GTD concept as I have taken time management courses before and was never able to make the concepts work in the fast paced/put out 100 fires every day work of IT training development/delivery and IT technical support.  I wondered how constructed the  responses from people having implemented GTD saying “GTD changed my life!” were.  But hey, I will try anything once – twice if I like it.  So about a week after the class – I took two evenings (about 2 hours each day) and did the mind sweep, Outlook task setup, etc. following the guides and what we learned in class.  I also included home, family, and such in the setup.  I finished on a Friday evening and for the first time in my career – I will say it again – for the FIRST time in my career  – I went home and didn’t think ONCE about work!!!  That weekend I was even able to accomplish many of the little “@Home” tasks that had been swirling around in my head as needing to be done, but I would forget because I had not written them down and scheduled them.

Before GTD I was stressed out and down to the last minute on completing many of my tasks, not from procrastination but from lack of organization.  With GTD, I am now so “up to date” and “on track” with my projects and tasks that I have even received several “Thanks for the fast response!” emails and comments from several co-workers and upper management!!!  I am even able to quickly gather “Completed Tasks” for my monthly notes and program review reporting to management.  I completed my two sets of monthly reporting charts in record time because all of the information was literally at my fingertips!!!

I feel such a weight off my shoulders that I am still amazed every day at how well GTD works.  There are not words to describe the feeling of elation of going home each night and not worrying about work and what needs to be done.  I know it is all captured and ready for me to address tomorrow.  To be able to actually focus on my family and home life without work raging through my head is quite an amazing feeling.  I have even found time to take up training 3 times a week to run a 5K coming up in Oct.  My next short term goal – and yes it is on my GTD list – is to run a 10K next Spring and next long term goal is to run a Half Marathon next year in the Fall.  I have “Run a Full Marathon” in my 30,000 level “Someday/Maybe” list (not sure I will like running that much!).

GTD is working so well for me that I have asked my team to sign up for the next available GTD class and I will be sharing the concept and how it is working for me – doing what they do – with them at our offsite in October.  Some are getting a taste with the Outlooks “Assign Task” from my GTD list that they are getting from me already.

The two quotes from class that ring so true to me are:

“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.” – David Allen
“You can only feel good about what you are not doing, when you know what you are not doing.” – David Allen

So I can say without a doubt and with much enthusiasm that “GTD changed my life!”

GTD has changed my life so much at work that I actually felt guilty at first because I was not feeling that ever present swirl of turmoil in my head at all the things I needed to be doing that I figured I must not have enough to do.  LOL!!!  I soon came to realize that is the beauty of GTD – like you said – “mind clearing” – an amazing feeling to say the least.

Thank you again for a great class and when you see David Allen – give him a good ole’ Southern hug and a great big THANK YOU for me please!!!

I’d been trying to find the tool to bring clarity to my situation and had stumbled upon the GTD Coordinator® that Staples sells back in November.  I’d liked the layout, and had followed up by getting a copy of David’s book.

I’d read Getting Things Done 3 or 4 months ago.  I’d tried to absorb it and get my arms around it.  I picked it up about 6 weeks ago and read it again.  I’d gone online to DAC’s website, and had seen the information on the Atlanta seminar.  I’d downloaded the free materials and had purchased the GTD and OUTLOOK 2003 guide.  I’d signed up for the seminar, and in the interim I started actually processing my email the GTD way.  What a difference!  I started looking at the changes I needed to make in my office.  I am a stacker and a packrat. I’ve always known what was where in what stack, but having moved into a new parsonage in June, and having been given responsibility for two areas in my church’s district and conference that required a tremendous amount of paperwork – I no longer knew where anything was, except for the “have to have” information from the new church responsibilities.

I took the GTD-Q test a day or two before the seminar.  I registered a Perspective 2, Control 1, Responder/Victim.  That made sense!  I’m always responding to the crisis, and my lack of control isn’t helping me.

The seminar was great.  I continued the mind sweep that night, and the next day.    As I continued doing the mind sweep, I started listing projects and next actions into the GTD Coordinator.  I played catch-up on Wednesday.  Thursday, I took David’s advice from the book to make any changes I’d been considering in my work space.  I went and bought 2 2-drawer file cabinets.  I moved my desk out further, and replaced the narrow bookcase behind it with the two cabinets, with a smaller bookcase between them.  On Friday, I purchased a 30” solid-core door.  I cut it down to 60 inches and put a hardwood trim around the edges.  I stained the door and put a cable-grommet in the back-center.  I put the door across the cabinets and bookcase and set up a nice work space.

I switched out the printer I had with a smaller, nicer printer I had at the house, but was not using.  I put a wire file rack on the desk with colored files for IN, ACTION SUPPORT, WAITING FOR, READ/REVIEW, TO HOME, TO OFFICE. I set-up a tickler file in a short, hanging-file desk stand, and put clamps on the sides to make it narrower to accommodate the files without using the hanging files.  In the back of that holder, I put a PROJECT SUPPORT notebook. I have my immediate reference books on top of the workspace, along with a pen/accessory tray that has my GTD System Guides and Jumpstart in it.  I also have my labeler and a regular and heavy duty stapler there, along with another file holder tray with some on-going projects, a rolodex, and a pad and pen.

I’ve placed a 3 tier basket on my desk for IN, PENDING, and READ/REVIEW. I placed a single OUT box on the desk beside it.   And, to date, I’ve completed 3 weekly reviews.  I do not have the several days (not hours) to blank out to do the collect the GTD way, so I’ve broken it down into chunks, starting with the area behind my desk and my desk and moving out.  I’m trying to do the same thing with my study at home.

I’m using Outlook for my calendar, and eventually plan on transferring the materials in the GTD Coordinator to Outlook to link with my older Palm.  But for now, I want to see it all in front of me at one time, and the notebook is working great–helping me to flip from my Projects list, to the Project Support area, where I can sketch the project out by steps, determine my next action, write that in the next actions, and then move the project support material into my project support notebook.

I’d already purchased a small 3×5 index card holder that would hold a few cards on the outside, and a stash inside, with a pen loop on the side.  I’ve been using that for my note-taker, and it has really helped.  I take my notes and dump them in my IN box. Since the seminar, I’ve actually gotten in the habit of carrying it with me!  I have one red IN folder in my truck to collect all of the receipts/notes on the road, to download into IN.

GTD has given me the tools to get control back in my life. I’ve got a long way to go, but am so encouraged by how much progress I’ve made, just in the last 2 weeks.  I’ve encouraged several people to get the book, and have already given my copy from the seminar away.

Thanks for bringing all of the pieces from the book together in the seminar and walking me through it, so I got to experience how it was all supposed to fit together.  I really enjoyed it, and am still reaping the benefits!

Thanks again,

Chip

As a GTD Coach, and also intimately involved in the education and offerings from David Allen, I would suggest one of the following products:

The GTD System – This is, in my opinion, one of the best educational products we offer.  You get a ton of resources to learn GTD at your own pace.  You get the GTD book, coaching CDs with David Allen, GTD Connect and more. Good stuff.

GTD Live – If you like to learn by listening, then this is for you.  It’s David presenting the full two-day GTD seminar.  Follow along as if you are in the audience. I’d personally love to see a video version of this as well, being more visual than auditory in my own learning style. But it’s a fantastic resource to learn directly from DA.

The Getting Started Series – GTD Connect has a 16-part Getting Started series. It walks you through all of the key topics of GTD and includes audio and video of David and the coaches chatting about the best practices.  A great way to get up and running in bite -sized chunks.

…and if any of those don’t do it for you, go back to the original manual for GTD: the book.  Can’t go wrong. After all these years, I still find new pearls of wisdom in it, but then again, I love this stuff.  Of course, seminars and coaching are the crown jewels, but as far as products you can do at your own pace, the list above is where I would start.

Cheers,

Kelly

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There are a few excellent resources from the David Allen Company for applying the GTD methods to your email:

1. The GTD Setup Guides, specific to your tool, will cover the best practices of email.
2. There is a terrific free article called “Getting Email Under Control” that covers this issue as well.
3. Our GTD Connect online learning center also runs regular Webinar classes on topics such as email. There is a Webinar in the Archive Library called “Managing Email” that you should find useful. GTD Connect is $48 per month (cancel anytime) or $480 per year (one-year commitment.)
4. Our public GTD Mastering Workflow classes cover email best practices.  These one-day classes are a great way to learn all of the GTD essentials, including email.
5. There are loads of posts on GTD Times on the topic of email. Search on the keyword “email” or follow the tag.

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Although they’ve been recorded for our GTD Connect online learning center, we have been posting the GTD Best Practices series to our free public podcast as well, for all to benefit from.  These informal podcasts are a great way to learn the essentials of GTD.  Here is the series:

Best Practices of Collect

Best Practices of Processing

Best Practices of Organize

Best Practices of Review

Best Practices of Doing

If you like these podcasts, GTD Connect has over 110 recordings like these, with more added every week, that you can play on the Connect site or  sync to iTunes.  It’s a great way to learn coaching tips from David and the staff, listen to interesting interviews with GTD’ers (Evan Taubenfeld being one of the recent ones), watch the “Slice of GTD Life” videos and more.  Good stuff.  Check out the free trial of GTD Connect.

The master key to clarity is maintaining a complete and current inventory of all your commitments and agreements with yourself. You need to capture, clarify, and organize them, so you can constantly review and reflect on the totality of your engagements with the world, so you can trust your choices about what you’re doing, moment to moment. -David Allen

Grab the free article on the 5 phases of Mastering Workflow.

Today marks the four-year anniversary of the day that I watched a taping of your Mastering Workflow seminar.  It’s the day that I started a journey from chaos and overwhelm to order and sanity.  Some thought that my GTD journey was just a phase, that it would be my “flavor of the month”.  They were wrong, and now they are wishing that they had the same level of relaxed control in their lives as I do now.

My excitement for GTD has never tapered off; in fact it grows over time as I frequent the forums and the articles at GTD Times contributing to and learning from other people’s GTD journeys.  GTD has enriched my life like no self-improvement program has ever been able to do.  On this, my fourth anniversary of living the GTD lifestyle, I offer you my most heartfelt thanks and appreciation for everything that you’ve done for me and others around the world.

F. Luke Funfar
Vice President of Communications
Savannah Green Homeowners Association

It was great to see spend the day learning how to take the GTD process from 50% to 100%.  I was so energized by the training that I did not go to bed Friday night and let me tell you what has happened in a short amount of time:

• Went on GTD Connect and reviewed the process once again from start to finish
• Revised my Outlook to reflect the GTD way
• Kept my inbox at zero
• Did a mindsweep
• Created an in folder for my wife for her to do a mindsweep as well and place in the folder
• Saturday went to Staples and bought everything I needed to create the “bins” which I viewed on the GTD Slice of Life (on GTDConnect.com) to see how people set up their desks as well.
• Collected everything on top, below, in drawers and around my desk and have processed to about 50% with target of getting in to zero today.

Let me tell you the impact this has made already.  I went to my daughters soccer game on Sunday and actually watched her.  I silenced the emails on the BlackBerry as I trusted and knew I would get to zero first thing Monday so nothing was more important.  She had the best game of the season.  Her coach commented that he wanted to know what I fed her for lunch.

After leaving the match I asked my daughter why she played so well.  Her response brought me to tears yesterday as it is now.  She said “Dad, this was the first time you were watching my game and not paying more attention to your BlackBerry.” This from a 10 year old.  It shows that GTD is more than just a system, it is a program that allows us to experience life at such a deeper level than I could have imagined prior to Friday.

I can’t thank you and David Allen enough on this program.  I am convinced that David should receive a Nobel Peace Prize for this.  I will continue to strive for mind like water as I move forward.

-Kevin

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If you missed the previous episode in our GTD best practices series on Collect, you can catch it here.

In this 90-minute interactive webinar, David Allen will describe the strategies, tools and specific behaviors that dramatically upgrade individual and organizational productivity. In particular, he will focus on:

1. The 5 stages of control and the 6 horizons of focus necessary for personal self-management
2. How to get immediate control of “current reality”
3. How to keep track of the total inventory of your commitments
4. Why organizational issues are often personal process issues
5. Why it’s so challenging to change the simplest habits
6. How to continually self-consult to get back on your game

Register here.  David also does free events like this for GTD Connect members.  If you’re not a member, you can check out the two-week free trial, or join for by the month ($48) or year ($480).  If it’s not for you, canceling is easy. Really.

The GTD: Mastering Workflow seminar is coming to Denver, Colorado on Thursday, May 28th. As a special offer for GTD Times readers, take 10% off the registration fee with the code Rocky10.

Whether you are new to GTD, or a veteran looking for a refresher on the best practices, we hope you can join us for this practical & tactical GTD seminar.

What a recent GTD seminar grad shared:

Since attending your seminar, my productivity has soared and I am no longer awaken at 2AM by things I forgot to do. I was and am an organized person. I had read David’s book a few years ago and had put into practice pieces of the GTD approach. But it wasn’t until I attended your seminar that I really got it. I especially appreciated the manner in which you conveyed the information – light-heartedly (no stern “gotta dos”) and with plenty examples to make the concepts easy to understand.

I am still learning and growing in my understanding of GTD, but the leap I made after attending your seminar was huge. Many thanks.

Be well, Nicole

I realized my physical work area did not support my GTD systematic approach.

I cleared my desk and used my label maker to visually make areas of the desk to support how I work.  So far this has helped me primarily stop to Clarify during processing.  It helps me literally stop and determine Is it Actionable?  If so, applying the clarifying activities of What is the desired outcome? and THEN, What’s the Next Action?

I have been all over the GTD-Q in the last 6 months.  This really shoved me firmly back into Captain and Commander.

I certainly know everyone is different but setting my physical environment in a linear process flow to support the GTD systematic approach helped me get out of a stale tailspin.

Just wanted to share this little victory story with you.

Some photos from Grant:

If you have a GTD story you would like to share, please write to us!

Kelly just gave us a tour on how to setup Notes and Outlook as GTD implementation tools. Even though I think I know this stuff, I still learn new things and I got to share some tips of my own. Listening to some of the questions from the audience that inspired some ideas for features I can build into eProductivity for Lotus Notes to make getting things done with Lotus Notes easier. I’ve got those items on my agenda list to discuss with my team.

The seminar is going well, Kelly’s in peak form, people are learning and laughing at the stories she’s sharing from her work in the GTD trenches. (Example: Most full e-mail box? 87,000 emails. True story from Kelly.)

Well, time to get back to the seminar. I’ll try to post another highlight, soon.

Update: Chris is ahead by 45,000 points.

b…y represents any additional action steps (but not the next action) along the way.

Now, here’s the secret: Z (the project) goes on your project list. A (the next action) goes on the appropriate action list. Everything else (b…y) needs to be parked somewhere, but if they are not next actions they do not belong on your current working list.

Perhaps this is support information, it may even be a list of next next actions. A great place to park this is information is with the project. If you use Outlook, park it in the Notes field. If you use Lotus Notes, the comments field. The key is to keep it accessible in the proper context – when you are looking at the project – but not on your current list.

Got it? If you do, then your action lists will only have “A” items on them and your project lists will only have “Z” items on them.

Take a look at your lists….

How are you doing? Any opportunities for improvement?

What I like about this approach is that it keeps my lists clean and simple. As a result, they are less full, less intimidating, and less repelling.

So, if your lists seem too full, ask yourself: “Is that an A or a b…-y action?”

I’ve been aware of this concept for many years, but I think this is a great illustration. The day has been full of these kinds of illustrations and practical examples. I’m glad I attended.

(Slide used with permission)

Kelly started the discussion with a great question:

On a 1-10 scale, how would you rate your productivity over the last two weeks?1= I should have stayed in bed.
10=Master of Control & Perspective

What supports you/gets in the way of you being at 10 more often?

Great question. Some surprising answers. I look forward to hearing what your experiences are.

I’m in Newport Beach today, attending the GTD Mastering Workflow Seminar. Although I’ve been to about a dozen GTD and MAP* seminars over the past 15 years, I continue to learn something new each and every time I attend.

Kelly Forrister is our presenter today, so I’m certain it will be a great day of learning and fun with a group of people committed to getting things done at work and play. I’ve had the good fortune to work with Kelly at four different organizations over the past 15 years. She’s as passionate as I am about productivity and she’s also a geek and we share a mutual interest for high-tech gear to support our productive lifestyle. (If you haven’t done so, check out Kelly’s blog .)

The GTD Mastering Workflow seminar is a relatively new format for this material. Instead of the traditional 2-day seminar, David Allen presents a one day seminar, called GTD RoadMap, which covers the high-level perspective of GTD, including theory and application. The second day, is called GTD Mastering Workflow, and it covers more of the hands-on DOING part of GTD. Together they provide a great introduction, or in my case a refresher, to all things GTD.

The information in the seminars hasn’t changed much – it’s proven and it works. It’s also simple. Too simple. That’s why I find it refreshing to hear it again to see what I missed or what productivity tip I’m now ready to hear.

Well, the seminar is about to begin, so I’ll sign off for now. Time and wireless-access permitting, I’ll try to post an update later in the day.

Eric

* Long before these seminars took on the GTD brand, they were called “Managing Actions and Projects”. Same great stuff, finely tuned for results.