A new PC Magazine article lists “The 100 People You Should Follow On Twitter.”  Yes, David Allen @gtdguy is one of them.  Here’s what they said:

David Allen
@gtdguy
Followers: 1.3 million
If you haven’t heard of the “getting things done” or GTD time-management and productivity movement, you’re probably not really getting things done. Author David Allen created GTD and uses Twitter to dispense advice and tips to help people get the right tools to work smarter and get motivated.

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A little Twitter humor for your holiday weekend!

Reposted here with permission from the talented cartoonist Rob Cottingham. Thanks Rob!

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We know many of you follow David Allen on Twitter (if not and you want to, he’s @GTDGuy).  He was named in the top 140 most popular Tweeters by Huffington Post.

Some of you have asked if DA does his own Tweets. Absolutely!  Every one of them.  You’re getting the man himself.

If you’re not into Twitter, you can also read his feed on GTD Times in the right column.

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Thanks to all who participated in the Guided GTD “Tweekly Review” I did this morning.  If you want a refresher, or missed it and want to follow along yourself, here’s the path.

Some of the other great resources for the GTD Weekly Review:

• The Book. It’s all in there. Really!
• GTD System Guides (which has the 11 steps on a laminated card)
• Weekly Review Set on CD or MP3
• Audio, Video, Articles and Webinars on GTD Connect
• Blog articles on GTD Times
• Free Podcast on the Best Practices of Review

Cheers!   Kelly

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I’ll be doing another free guided GTD Weekly Review on Twitter this coming Friday, March 26th at 10am California time.  These events are fun, easy to follow and a great way to get a taste of a GTD best practice.

What: It will be a working Twitter class.  Over an hour, I’ll guide people through the 11-steps of the GTD Weekly Review through a series of Tweets. You’ll want to be in front of your system (at least calendar, lists, email, inboxes etc.) to take action based on the Tweets.  While the purpose isn’t to bring you to completion with all of it, you’ll get to experience a bit of each step, and capture what’s next for you.  Remember, the Weekly Review is the critical success factor for GTD!  The better you know it, the better your system will be.

When: Friday, March 26th at 10am PDT/California time. Find your local time.

How: Follow @GTDSpecialEvent on Twitter or just launch this web page during the event to follow the Tweets. You’ll want to Refresh your Twitter page often to make sure you’re getting the latest Tweets.  They’ll come every few minutes.

Who: Probably good to have at some basic understanding of processing & organizing with GTD (also chapter 2 of the GTD book is great) and at least a basic structure of GTD setup for yourself already.

Read what others had to say about the last one.

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A community contribution by Meghan Wilker. Join Meghan and Coach Kelly Forrister on the upcoming Webinar for GTD Connect Members–”Productive Use of Social Media.”

When Google unveiled Buzz a few weeks ago (and Wave a couple of months before that), it got me to thinking about how the emergence of each new technology often means an associated emergence of a new inbox.

These new inboxes now can sometimes creep up without us noticing right away. For example, when I got an iPhone in 2007, texting suddenly became a major new source of input. Don’t get me wrong: I’m a self-professed “Geek Girl” — it’s not like I didn’t have a phone capable of texting before 2007. I did. But, it was rather clunky and I didn’t use it often. Most people I knew didn’t use it much (I’m a Gen Xer, so we don’t text as profusely as those Gen Y youngins do). Once I got an iPhone, texting was suddenly dead simple. Once my PARENTS got iPhones…good night. Suddenly I was getting texts from my Baby Boomer dad (“Hi, honey!” “Did you get that?” “Is this working?”) [Read more →]

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Clearing the mind is one of my favorite things with GTD.  You cannot lose. To me, it’s one of the quickest ways to feel better if I’m stressed out, feeling overwhelmed or trying to mentally manage the ankle-biting things that have my attention. In a short period of time, I can sweep my brain of any nagging bits–from buying stamps to wondering what’s I should do with my investments.  And what’s amazing to me, as easily as the brain will hold on to that stuff, it will just as easily let it go. It’s not a strong fighter if it trusts I will process, organize & review what I’m collecting. All 5 of those GTD phases are interconnected like an ecosystem that works together.

In my GTD Twitter class this morning, doing a Guided Mindsweep, a few people asked why they would write things down in a mindsweep that are already on their lists? There are a few common reasons why things will creep back into your mind:

You didn’t clarify enough. If your mind thinks there is more planning or brainstorming to do about that, or what you captured as a next action is not the next physical, visible step, it will take it back.

You’re not reviewing enough. If your mind doesn’t trust you’re looking at that choice often enough (Are we doing anything about this??), it will take the job back.  The Weekly Review is gold.  It’s not just clean-up time, it’s reassurance time for your mind that you’re “on it,” even if that’s a decision to let it incubate some more on Someday.

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I will be hosting another free GTD Twitter class this Thursday, October 15th at 9am Pacific Time.  Just 30 minutes of clearing your mind. Here’s the scoop:

What: It will be a working Twitter session. I’ll guide people through the GTD Mindsweep process through a series of Tweets.  Mindsweep is part of the Collect phase of GTD (read chapter 5 of the Getting Things Done book to get a quick overview of this process.)  It will be up to you to then process & organize it (chapters 6 & 7 of the book.)  When I’ve done these Guided Mindsweeps for GTD Connect members, many commented how great it was to have someone else jogging their brain on things they hadn’t thought of on their own. They did a much more thorough collection of the loose bits in their brain.

When: Thursday, October 15th – 9am PDT (Los Angeles time) Find your local time.

How: Follow @GTDSpecialEvent or just launch this web page during the event to follow the Tweets. Have a blank electronic document or pad & pen handy to do the exercise.

Who:  Anyone who wants a clear head. Truly.

If you’re like most people, you’ll move too fast and be engaged in too many things during the course of a week to get all your ideas and commitments outside your head. But it should become an ideal standard that keeps you motivated to consistently “clean house” of all the things about your work and life that have attention. – David Allen

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GTD enthusiast Frode Odegard is hosting a free GTD ‘Tweetup’ in Oslo, Norway next week.  You can also follow the event through live video stream.  Check it out.  Frode said he also plans to host a San Diego one as well this fall.

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Thanks to all of you who joined the GTD “Tweekly” Review I did this morning. Hope you found value!  Let me know if you’d like me to do another one. If the pace was a bit too speedy for you, you can always go back and review the Tweets I sent.  Here are all 11 steps to the GTD Weekly Review, for your reference:

GET CLEAR

• Collect loose papers and materials
• Get “In” to zero
• Empty your head

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