Alleviating Overwhelm with GTD (Video Podcast)

Alleviating Overwhelm with GTD (Video Podcast)

In this episode, Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about how GTD® can help to mitigate overwhelm and restore a sense of positive, calm focus to your work and life. Click to play this episode Subscribe to the Podcast Transcript [music] 00:05 Todd Brown: Hello everyone...
How Do Your Energy Levels Affect Your Focus?

How Do Your Energy Levels Affect Your Focus?

How much energy do you have right now? Our energy levels dictate how well we can focus, and sometimes, it’s useful to take stock of how much energy you have to make the best decisions about what we should engage in next.
Alleviating Overwhelm with GTD (Video Podcast)

GTD and Your Personal Best (Video Podcast)

In this episode Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about how GTD can help you adapt to changing circumstances so that you can give your personal best even in tough times. Click to play this episode Subscribe to the Podcast Transcript 00:04 Robert Peake: So welcome,...
What is Marie Kondo Missing?

What is Marie Kondo Missing?

There are many benefits to tidying up and decluttering our lives, as Marie Kondo has successfully demonstrated. But what is missing? Marie Kondo focuses on physical clutter, but many of us are struggling more with mental clutter. What if we took the basic idea of...
Creation and Completion with GTD

Creation and Completion with GTD

As knowledge workers, it can be hard to grasp that our work is never going to be ‘done’. The idea is to be constructively engaged in our process of creation and completion. Some thoughts around how GTD® can help you optimise the flow of your work.
Discipline and Making Habit Stick

Discipline and Making Habit Stick

This week, I talk about GTD® and discipline. Sure, it takes time to make something a habit, but the benefits of GTD practice are obvious – the ability to become far more productive and less stressed. That’s where to focus.
Alleviating Overwhelm with GTD (Video Podcast)

Changing Up Your GTD System (Video Podcast)

In this video, Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about when it might be time to give your system a good clear-out — or even jump ship to a new tool altogether. Click to play this episode Subscribe to the Podcast Transcript [music] 00:06 Robert Peake: So welcome...
GTD, the Future Vision and the Power of Outcome Thinking

GTD, the Future Vision and the Power of Outcome Thinking

This week I talk about the power of outcome thinking and defining visions for ourselves of the future we want to create. Using the Getting Things Done® (GTD®) methodology, we can create the best possible outcomes based on desirable visions of our future, leading to a...
GTD and ‘Orienting Maps’

GTD and ‘Orienting Maps’

Do you have a set of useful reminders to help you focus on the right things, in the right place, and at the right time? This week I talk about how GTD’s ‘orienting maps’ can help you reach your desired outcomes with greater...

Is GTD® for You?

Todd Brown asks the question: “Is GTD® for you?”, and explores why GTD might be useful in maximising productivity and reducing stress.
Clarifying Your Commitments

Clarifying Your Commitments

In this week’s video blog, Todd Brown discusses the ‘clarifying’ questions in the Getting Things Done® (GTD®) methodology, to help you optimise your commitments in the most productive, stress-free way.
Alleviating Overwhelm with GTD (Video Podcast)

GTD and FOMO (Video Podcast)

In this episode, Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about how to navigate the straits between information overwhelm and fear of missing out (FOMO) using the GTD methodology. Click to play this episode Subscribe to the Podcast
How to Get More Balance in Life with GTD (Video)

How to Get More Balance in Life with GTD (Video)

How to Get More Balance in Life with GTD (Video) Todd Brown talks about how it is important to get balance in life, and how Getting Things Done® (GTD®) helps to create better balance through the Threefold Nature of Work Model. Click to play this...
Alleviating Overwhelm with GTD (Video Podcast)

How GTD Helps Reduce Stress (Podcast)

In this episode, Todd Brown and Robert Peake discuss how GTD can help dramatically reduce stress levels, even in complex and challenging circumstances. Click to play this episode Subscribe to the Podcast
Alleviating Overwhelm with GTD (Video Podcast)

Is GTD for Me? (Podcast)

In this episode, Todd Brown and Robert Peake discuss where GTD can have the most impact, and the types of people who gravitate toward the methodology and have success with it. Click to play this episode Subscribe to the Podcast
Success is Personal

Success is Personal

I’ve been thinking lately a lot about what defines success, and the messages that we receive in the marketplace of ideas about being “more successful.” Usually, those messages are based on the belief that success is externally defined, that there are objective...
A Guide to Ineffective Leadership

A Guide to Ineffective Leadership

Regular readers will know that in my blogs I usually focus on ways to be more effective and efficient, to realise the benefits of stress-free productivity. It occurred to me earlier this week though that I’ve been neglecting an audience that could use some help. What...
Do We Know What Hard Working Even Means?

Do We Know What Hard Working Even Means?

Shot of a stressed out businesswoman surrounded by colleagues needing help Listening to the radio last week, I heard a politician talking about how her party’s policies were supporting the “hard-working people of Britain.” How many times have you heard something...
What GTD is Not (Podcast)

What GTD is Not (Podcast)

In this episode, Todd Brown and Robert Peake discuss common misconceptions about GTD and lay to rest a few myths about the methodology. Click to play this episode Subscribe to the Podcast