David Allen will be leading a “GTD Success Strategies” Webinar for our GTD Connect members next Friday, August 27th @ 10am PDT.  He’ll share the keys for what makes GTD stick, including:

• The habits and rituals to create
• What to do when you fall “off” GTD
• Creating a trusted home base for yourself
• Creating a supportive environment around you

We’re giving away 5 seats to attend this Webinar to the first 5 people who reply with a comment (directly on GTD Times–not other feed sites) letting us know one thing you’ve implemented with GTD that has worked well for you.

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The next Webinar on GTD Connect will be “Digging Out From Backlog”.  Two of our senior coaches will give you tips, tricks, and strategies for dealing with your piles of “stuff”.  If you feel like your backlog is holding you back from getting the most out of GTD, this Webinar is for you.  Free to all GTD Connect members (free trial members too).   Thursday, July 15 @ 11am PDT.  Register on the home page of GTD Connect.

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For those of you in the Los Angeles area, David Allen will be the featured speaker at an  event in Thousand Oaks, CA.

When: Tuesday, June 15th

Times: 7:30am – 9am

Topic: Creating Order Out of Chaos – Staying Afloat in a World of Too Much To Do

Learn more

This is a paid, in-person only event–not a Webinar. Please follow the link to learn more from the organization hosting this.

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For a Webinar with David Allen, the next one will be on June 23rd from 11am-12pm through our online learning center–GTD Connect.  David will be taking attendee examples to coach people through the GTD Fundamental Process (What’s the Outcome? and What’s the Next Action?)  Free to all GTD Connect members.  Register now on the home page of Connect.  Not a member? Try the 14-day trial.

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We just finished the 3-part Road to Black Belt “boot camp” series on GTD Connect.  They have been some of our most popular and highly attended Webinars yet.  They are now available for replay on the Connect site (for free trial members too!) and through podcast (members only.)  You’ll find them all on the home page of GTDConnect.com.

The June Webinars on GTD Connect will be:

Natural Planning Model® -Thursday, June 10 @ 11am Pacific Time

Senior Coaches Wayne Pepper and Kelly Forrister will lead participants through David’s project planning model (described on p. 54 of the Getting Things Done book).  This easy to follow model helps you define your projects, from purpose to next actions.

Fundamental Processing Lab with David Allen – Wednesday, June 23 @ 11am Pacific Time

David will lead a Mind Sweep and take participant examples to walk through deciding what their “stuff” is and what they are going to do about it.

Note:  Webinars are always free for GTD Connect members and are available to free trial members who have active trials at the time of the Webinar

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If you are a GTDer, and you use Lotus Notes, there’s a great opportunity later this month to see David’s personal system in action.  The developers of eProductivity, the application David personally uses to manage his workflow in Lotus Notes, are hosting a Webinar with David on April 28th.  Here are the details:

What: Webinar on GTD & Lotus Notes

When: Wednesday, April 28th from 10am – 11:30am PDT

Sign-up: Cick here to register. It’s free and open to the public, although space is limited.

For more best practices on GTD & Lotus Notes, check out the Webinar on GTD Connect or the Setup Guide in our store.

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Community Contribution from Eric Mack, partner of the David Allen Company

As many of you know, David Allen has used Lotus Notes for his personal GTD system for many years.  As such, David and I will be co-hosting two upcoming webinars on GTD & Lotus Notes.

Exclusively for IBM employees:
On April 8th from 10am – 11:30am PST, we’ll be doing a webinar exclusively for IBM employees on applying GTD to Lotus Notes. Many IBMers are fans of GTD already, and this will give more insight into David’s master tips, tricks & strategies. We’ll also look at eProductivity – the only software tool for Lotus Notes that’s earned the distinctive “GTD Enabled” certification.

If you’re an IBM employee, sign up now.

Open to the public;
David and I will be doing another webinar on GTD & Lotus Notes on April 28th that is open to the public.  Sign-up now. Space is limited.

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For those of you looking for the best ways to implement GTD with Lotus Notes®, join the next Webinar class on GTD Connect, our subscription-based online learning center.  It will be held February 4th at 12pm Pacific Time.  If you can’t make the live event, the replay will be posted to the GTD Connect Media Library (screenshot shows all of the replays currently available.)

GTD Connect is a great way to get practical & tactical coaching advice on implementing GTD.   Webinars are held about twice a month on a wide range of topics for GTD’ers.  If you’re not a GTD Connect member, check out the free trial (which will also allow you to take a Webinar class during your trial membership.)  If you decide to join beyond your trial, it’s only $48 a month and you can cancel anytime.  The free trial is a great way to see if GTD Connect is for you.  Trial members can access to the full site except for podcasts and downloads.

I’m a retired teacher who now has a tiny gem or a business called ‘Life in the Flow Lane.’  I read Getting Things Done a couple of years ago and implemented some things.  I am a GTD Connect newbie.  The Webinars are simply invaluable.  You have given me a much greater understanding of the whole GTD process.  For example, I really get that I need to have a list that attracts rather than repels me!  It seems obvious, but you show how to make that happen.  All the resources on Connect work well together.  I think the mix you have put together is simply outstanding. – Sharry Teague

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There are lots of creative mapping tools out there, and PersonalBrain is one that David Allen uses to capture an autobiographical brain of his life.  Shelley, an evangelist for TheBrain put together a cool demo of how to look at the corners of your mind…

TheBrain also just launched a new hosting service for PersonalBrain users called WebBrain, with a great example about GTD.

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A Microsoft Outlook user recently asked one of our coaches:

After working with the GTD system for quite awhile, I find tracking next actions in Outlook to be pretty easy.  The harder part is tracking projects.  Where do you do that and how do you move from the 10,000 level (projects) to the runway (actions)?

Coach Wayne Pepper replied:

I keep my Projects list in Outlook Tasks.  I simply create a category in Tasks labeled “Projects”.  [Read more →]

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David Allen is doing a webinar event next Wednesday, July 8th, hosted by Unbound Ideas.

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.

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