In case you hadn’t heard, I will be hosting a free, guided GTD “Tweekly Review” through Twitter tomorrow.

What: It will be a working Twitter session. 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.

When: Thursday, Aug 13, 9am – 10am PDT (Los Angeles time–find your local time)

How: Follow @GTDSpecialEvent or just launch this web page during the event to follow the Tweets.

Who: Probably good to have at some basic understanding of GTD workflow model and at least a basic structure of GTD setup for yourself already.

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I’m planning on offering another free, guided GTD “Tweekly Review” for you Twitter fans.  If you missed the last one, here’s how it will work:

On Thursday, August 13th from 9am-10am PDT (Los Angeles, California time), I will lead a one-hour GTD Weekly Review through Tweets sent from the @GTDSpecialEvent Twitter account.  Approximately every 5 minutes, I will send out a Tweet with one of the 11 steps of the GTD Weekly Review.  I will intersperse them with tips, tricks and helpful advice about that step. [Read more →]

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We’ve setup a page on Facebook for all of you David Allen and GTD fans out there.  It’s a  great place,  if you’re so inclined, to follow some of the latest bits of noteworthy news, quotes and musings from GTDGuy.  Check it out:  facebook.com/gettingthingsdone. You can also follow David on Twitter as GTDGuy.

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What does David Allen think of the “cocktail party” that is Twitter? In this short and sweet 5 minute podcast, David talks about his approach to Twitter and the world of social media.   LISTEN NOW

“People ask me, is it [Twitter] a waste of time? Is going to a cocktail party a waste of time? Well, people go to cocktail parties, so if you feel guilty for going, you shouldn’t go to begin with. If you are going, why are you going?”  – David Allen

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The GTD Tweekly Review today was great fun for me and seemed like it worked well for those who followed.  I will do another one.  Don’t know when yet, but will be sure to post on GTD Times, GTD Connect and Twitter when I come up with a date and time.  And, please don’t wait for me to do a Weekly Review on your own!  It’s all in the book, in the free article, System Guides and more.   I know there’s a special sauce factor of having a David Allen Coach lead you through it, but you can always find those motivators for yourself too!  Make it fun, give yourself a reward, find a buddy, give yourself a time limit like I did, or focus on one step and do it completely–whatever works.

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

GET CURRENT

• Review Action Lists
• Review past calendar data
• Review upcoming calendar
• Review Waiting For list
• Review Project (and larger outcome) lists
• Review any relevant checklists

GET CREATIVE

• Review Someday/Maybe
• Be creative & courageous

“Best to not be too tied up in how often you “should” be doing a Weekly Review. Then, like avoiding writing your relatives because there’s just too much to catch up on, if you’re not getting to the Review regularly, you’ll just think it’s too much to catch up with, and you quit. Any time, any frequency, is better than not at all.” – David Allen

Until we meet again…

Kelly

GTDCoachKelly

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Follow the Twitterfountain: http://www.gtdtimes.com/gtd-tweekly-review-twitter-fountain/

Follow GTDCoachKelly: http://twitter.com/GTDCoachKelly

Search on the hashtag: #Tweekly

I’ll Tweet the 11 steps of the GTD Weekly Review, one every 5 minutes.

- Kelly

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The response to my blog post on the first Worldwide GTD “Tweekly” Review on Twitter has been amazing!  I’ll be leading whoever wants to join through the 11 steps of the GTD Weekly Review.  Some of you have asked me to change the time.  We’re going to keep it at the scheduled 10am California Pacific Time.  Sorry, I know for some of you that’s wee early.  So if I do another one, I will certainly take that into account.

Here are the particulars:

Thursday, May 28th – 10am – 11am Pacific Time (California) time. Find your local time.  Here’s a sample of local times:

• 11am Mountain time (Denver)
• 12pm Central time (Chicago)
• 1pm Eastern time (New York)
• 6pm UK time (London)
• 7pm Poland time (Warsaw)
• 2am Japan time (Tokyo)
• 3am Australia time (Sydney)

A few of you have asked how much of GTD should you know before joining the guided Tweekly Review. I would highly recommend understanding the essential Mastering Workflow principles of GTD:

• Collect
• Process
• Organize
• Review
• Do

The GTD book, is one of the best ways to learn those principles.  Part one (about 86 pages) will give you a great overview.  If you’ve been through a GTD class with us, review your workbook.  Short on time or just want a refresher of the best practices?  I would at least download these free articles from the DAC store:

• GTD Weekly Review
• 5 Phases of GTD: Mastering Workflow
• GTD Workflow Diagram

Here are three different ways to follow:

• Follow GTDCoachKelly on Twitter
• Search the hashtag “#Tweekly” on Twitter
• Follow the Twitterfountain on GTD Times.

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David Allen has often said, “If you are not doing a Weekly Review, you are not doing GTD.”   Even though it’s the  “Critical Success Factor,” it seems to be one of those parts of GTD that can be harder to make a habit than others. Believe me, in all my years of doing GTD myself and teaching others, the Weekly Review gets people so tangled up and stressed out about what it should look/feel/sound like, that they avoid it entirely.

Whenever I would do GTD seminars, I would recommend people get a “GTD buddy” to support them in doing the Weekly Review. Sound like kid stuff?  It is–but it works.  It’s a support system to keep people to their word.  Think about, if you were to commit to a Weekly Review, and have someone ask you how it went afterward, or even do one at the same time, wouldn’t you be more inclined to actually do one?

Over on Twitter, avid GTD’er and GTD Connect Member Darla suggested we do a “group weekly review.”  I jumped at the idea.  I would love to facilitate people getting clear, current and creative.  Sounds like a great time to me!  Her vision for this is:

“Our goal could be to make the weekly review fun – remove the mystery – remove the feeling of “have to” that so many people put on it.”

So, here’s how it will work:

On Thursday, May 28th from 10AM-11AM Pacific Time in California (check your local time), clear your schedule to do a GTD Weekly Review.  Follow me @GTDCoachKelly, or follow the tag #Tweekly.  I’ll walk everyone through the GTD Weekly Review checklist.  We’ll have 5 minutes per step before moving on to the next one.  Yes, 5 minutes.  Idea is to get you through a taste of all of 11 steps.  If you’re not done with a step, just bookmark your next actions list with what’s left and move on to the next one.  I’ll Tweet the step and an explanation of what you can do.  Or, if you are so inspired and getting good stuff out of the step you’re on, stay there. There’s no “should” here except to get whatever value you want to get out of it!

Grab a free copy of the Weekly Review checklist before the Big Day.

By the way, you can follow David Allen on Twitter @GTDGuy.  There’s also loads of traffic with the #gtd tag.

5/26/09: Read the latest update on this.

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For those of you that would like a voyeuristic view into the GTD Global Summit, I present for your lengthy reading pleasure all of the tweets from the legions of twitterers that are attending the summit.  (And there are many, at least half the audience is on twitter).

These are in reverse chronological order so you can take a trip back in time from present moment to last night’s cocktail party or you can start at the bottom and work your way forward in time to see the event blossom in the way that it actually has.  Either way there are some wonderful pearls here as many of the tweets are actual quotes from the speakers presenting at the conference.

Tweets are here as a PDF:  twitters_eye_view_gtdsummit

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If you’re a David Allen fan then this is news you probably want to hear.  David, the man behind GTD has finally leaped with both feet fully into the Web2.0 World by signing up for Twitter.

So if you are interested in what David has to say – or as Twitter says – “what David is doing” you should make it a point to go to Twitter and follow GTDGuy aka David Allen.

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