Three Fastest Strategies to Reduce Overwhelm
Feeling overwhelmed, with too much to do and not enough time? Do you feel like you have too much information coming at you from all directions, and too much to think about? Here are the three fastest strategies to reduce overwhelm, with guidance on how you can manage...
How To Make Your Lists REALLY Work For You
In this video, GTD® veteran Robert Peake outlines how you can make your ‘to-do’ lists much more functional, why your brain needs help when it comes to getting stuff done, and how you can reduce friction when you need to work on something on your...
Is Your GTD System Too Complex? (Video Podcast)
In this episode, we ask is your GTD® system overbuilt? How complex is too complex when it comes to creating your GTD system? We take a deep dive into the setup of your GTD system and how to streamline your lists, create practical and easily accessible indexes of your ‘stuff’, and reduce friction in your workflow.
Why Do You Want to be Productive? No, Really…
What motivates you to get things done – is ‘productivity’ connected to a greater sense of purpose or a deeper ‘why’? Here’s how you might want to approach the concept of productivity differently, to make progress towards those...
GTD for Couples (Video Podcast)
In this episode, we discuss how GTD® has a positive influence on relationships and the benefits it has for couples.
Is That Really Off Your Mind?
GTD® coach Robert Peake shares three common ways in which people often accumulate a lingering amount of stress by keeping things in their mind – even when they have the best of intentions to do otherwise. More importantly, he shares the keys to truly getting...
Three Common Misunderstandings of Self-Taught GTD Fans
Because David’s bestselling book is so comprehensive, people often can get a long way with self-teaching. However, in this video veteran GTD coach Robert Peake shares some of the common misunderstandings he has come across from those who try too hard to do...
Turn Your Problems Into Projects
How to turn your problems into projects, be more successful, and achieve those long-term goals. In a world of change and challenges, here’s an insight into how GTD® can help you to get control of your world and take the right steps to move forward with progress....
How to Achieve Focus and Balance When Working From Home
When working from home, it can be challenging to achieve a true ‘work-life balance’ as the boundaries between work and home are blurred. With more distractions and less real distinction between work and home life, it is not uncommon to feel out of control,...
Why the GTD Mindsweep is the Best Life Hack You’ll Ever Need
In these uncertain times, Robert Peake reminds us why the GTD® mindsweep is the simplest, yet most effective technique to help us feel more in control and less bogged down by the things going on our world.
What I Learned From Doing 20 Years of GTD®
Veteran Getting Things Done® (GTD®) coach Robert Peake reflects back on how he first got started with the methodology, and what it has taught him by using it all day, every day, for the past 20 years.
How Search is Killing Your Productivity
Search is amazing, but it won’t replace your brain. In this short clip, veteran GTD® coach Robert Peake talks about why we need to re-think our dependence on hoping we can find stuff later using search–and how to fix it.
Project Dog
It is quiet now, but earlier our living room echoed with the howls of a lonely Siberian night. You see, we recently invited the patter of little dew claws into our life by adopting a rescue dog. After a few weeks of getting-to-know-you and DNA results, we discovered...
One GTD System or Two? (Video Podcast)
In this episode, Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about why you might be repulsed by your GTD® projects list–and what to do about it.
Best Practices for Using Collaborative Software with GTD
Collaborative software (a.k.a. ‘groupware’) is on the rise as companies grapple with demands for greater team productivity. This article follows on from a previous guide to understanding how the various elements of your company’s groupware solution...
How Does My Company’s Collaborative Software Fit In With GTD?
In this article, we introduce a few key questions that will help you understand how different elements of your company’s groupware solution can interact optimally with your trusted Getting Things Done® (GTD®) system for personal productivity, maximising the impact of both.
Avoid This BIG Beginner Mistake with GTD
There is a big trap that people new to implementing GTD® can fall into. Robert Peake explains how to sidestep it.
Do You Love or Hate Your GTD Projects List? (Video Podcast)
In this episode, Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about why you might be repulsed by your GTD® projects list–and what to do about it.
Getting Real About Wellness with GTD
My client was on the verge of tears looking at his projects lists. It was time to have “the conversation”. The one about being one person, and trying to live the lives of seven people all at once. I asked him to consider that everything in his system was...
Put the Ukulele Down
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.” -Blaise Pascal What if nobody likes this blog? What if I’m all out of ideas about GTD®? What if I go to write and nothing shows up?...
Regrouping, Recouping, and Re-Engaging with GTD
Boxer, the horse from George Orwell’s classic text Animal Farm, had one answer to adversity: “The solution, as I see it, is to work harder.” It is a poignant allegory for Stalinist exploitation of working-class Russian revolutionaries. But it is also...
Your Email Inbox Is All About You
Growing up on the US-Mexico border, a feature of my childhood friends’ birthday parties was the piñata. For those unfamiliar, it is a colourful papier-mâché figure, ranging from a traditional donkey to a popular cartoon character, stuffed to the crêpe-paper...
