by James Harwood | 9 Jul 2020 | Horizons of Focus, James Harwood's Blog, Reflect, Weekly Review |
Trusting your choices about how you spend your time and focus your limited resources is a key desired outcome of ‘Getting Things Done®’. If you can spend most of your days, weeks, months and years trusting your judgment that what you are doing is what you...
by James Harwood | 14 May 2020 | Creativity, Horizons of Focus, James Harwood's Blog, Talent development, Weekly Review |
Let’s start with you answering for yourself: What more do you want to get from GTD®; if you were to be coached – one-to-one by a GTD expert – what improvements would you hope to achieve? This blog post isn’t about any ‘new’ GTD ideas, rather about taking...
by James Harwood | 19 Mar 2020 | Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, James Harwood's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
First and most importantly, I hope you and your loved ones and colleagues are safe. I hope you are reading this because you are indeed well and wanting to continue being productive in these strangest of times that we all find ourselves in. We are entering what, for...
by James Harwood | 22 Jan 2020 | Capture, Clarify, Horizons of Focus, James Harwood's Blog, Reflect, Weekly Review |
If ever there was a time to get our visions perfectly clear, it must surely be in 2020! Often at New Year, people scout around for opportunities and ideas to add to their ‘Resolutions’ for the coming year. Trying to remember or think of great things they could achieve...
by James Harwood | 14 Nov 2019 | Clarify, Engage, James Harwood's Blog, Reflect, Weekly Review |
“If I’m in meetings all day from 8am until 8pm, when am I ever going to get time to do this Clarifying and Organising thing?” “Well, quite” I reply, “and what about actually working on all the items you have already put on your lists?” Following this common coaching...
by James Harwood | 19 Sep 2019 | Capture, James Harwood's Blog, Organise |
When we help someone build their GTD® ‘external brain’; their ‘trusted list keeper’ for remembering all of their commitments, sometimes they feel that they don’t want to put all their personal items into their company computer. This can be for various reasons: they...
by James Harwood | 19 Jul 2019 | Horizons of Focus, James Harwood's Blog, Organise, Planning, Reflect, Weekly Review |
You won’t get the great benefit of seeing your world from a higher perspective in your Weekly Review® without first having a complete Projects list. And… You won’t fully understand why you should keep a complete Projects list until you’re getting the benefit of seeing...
by James Harwood | 29 May 2019 | Clarify, Engage, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
Languages are living things and not meant to be fixed or constrained. At times, this is hard for a pedant like me to accept. Of course, I can see that it really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, if someone writes ‘who’ when it should have been ‘whom’ or if...
by James Harwood | 4 Apr 2019 | James Harwood's Blog, Organise, Planning |
I was recently in the audience at a Q&A session with David Allen. My question to him was something I have answered many times myself while running seminars and coaching people and, although I think my answer is quite practised and complete, I wanted to see how...
by James Harwood | 30 Jan 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Engage, James Harwood's Blog, Team |
How easy it is to feel smug, you’re up and running with GTD®. You’re completing a Weekly Review®, your ‘ins’ are at zero, your lists are in order, higher horizons aligned and you’re looking through your ‘waiting for’ list to see who you can chase to prove your system...
by James Harwood | 4 Jan 2019 | Capture, Clarify, James Harwood's Blog |
Those of us who work with our email inboxes regularly ‘at zero’ are aware of the many benefits this brings. It is therefore a surprise, when trying to encourage others to do the same, that their first response is often along the lines of “I don’t care that I have...
