Is Your Clutter Exquisite?

Is Your Clutter Exquisite?

watch time: 10:37 mins It’s almost second nature to think of our digital world when we talk about the GTD methodology®, but let’s focus on all the physical...
Anything Is Possible

Anything Is Possible

est. reading time: 5:07 mins I moved to Florida. Although this is a simple sentence, there was hardly anything simple about making it happen. We wanted to leave our home in Budapest. We already had a plan to move back to our previous home in the UK, which kept...
Thermomix

Thermomix

est. reading time: 3:45 mins Brrrriiing !  The distinct ring-tone melody of my Thermomix® kitchen gadget rips me out of my reveries.  As I walk over to stop the – somewhat annoying – ringing, I muse about the fact that I actually don’t need a...
The Most Adamant GTD® Sceptics Are GTDers.

The Most Adamant GTD® Sceptics Are GTDers.

est. reading time: 3:28 mins Practice Getting Things Done (GTD®) for long enough, deliver training about it for long enough, and you get accustomed to a lot of repeating questions/problems – What’s the best tool? Why not just do ‘x’? How do I get my husband/boss/child...
Inbox Zero Or Zeroing Inboxes?

Inbox Zero Or Zeroing Inboxes?

est. reading time: 6:45 mins Part of our training as GTD® trainers is to help our delegates get to zero and experience firsthand what it is like to have no more backlog. What seemed to me to be the most exciting part of the training often appeared to the delegates to...
GTD® – A Simple Series Of Yes Or No

GTD® – A Simple Series Of Yes Or No

est. reading time: 6 mins Starting with “No” In the process of implementing GTD® one of the first things people start to appreciate is the context list. The way all tasks can be captured when they come up and have every next action clarified and organised, but instead...
Sing When You’re Winning

Sing When You’re Winning

est. reading time: 7 mins “Are you winning, Miles?” The person asking is a burly, retired Mancunian who owns the plot next to mine at the allotment. He has a penchant for crooning ballads at the top of his voice as he cultivates the cabbages, cauliflowers...
How Your Shopping List Works

How Your Shopping List Works

Several of the most powerful elements of the GTD® methodology are simply the extension of some habits many people are already using, in some form, into other areas of their lives, or applying some practises they have in place, in some situations, to many other areas...
Slow Yew Down

Slow Yew Down

It wasn’t a good look for a teacher of the art of stress-free productivity – sweating bullets as I balanced unsteadily at Gate 43 in Lisbon Airport with an open laptop clutched in one hand and the other trying to open a passport on the right page. I uttered some...
Filo-Email

Filo-Email

Isn’t it odd that we talk of ‘being in front of our computers’, rather than our computers ‘being in front of us’? Does this turn of phrase indicate that we feel our computers are in the seat of power? I recently asked a prospective coaching client “what do you do for...
Don’t Look At Your Lists!

Don’t Look At Your Lists!

When we all started with GTD® we had to build our GTD system from scratch. This meant that you, like everyone, had to spend a lot of time with Capturing all your stuff, then Clarifying and Organising this into your tool of choice. These first three steps can therefore...
Next (Trans)Action

Next (Trans)Action

Every day around the world, companies large and small are bought or sold. Huge sums change hands in that process, but also around that process. Because of the amounts involved, an entire industry of specialists has developed to facilitate – and earn from – these...
Why, O Why, O Why?

Why, O Why, O Why?

The world has changed a lot since David Allen developed his methodology and wrote the 2001 first edition of “Getting Things Done ®”: Filofaxes have been mostly replaced by laptops, Palm Pilots by smartphones, faxes by emails, and too many meetings by far too many...
Never Decreasing Circles

Never Decreasing Circles

I’ve been reading a book on human movement concurrently with a book on the lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle of a productivity expert, for sure. These days, the fittest of us get something like 300 minutes – or 6 hours – of movement...
Apples, Bananas, Milk And Why Am I On Earth?

Apples, Bananas, Milk And Why Am I On Earth?

Don’t you find it odd, that although nearly everyone has grasped the fact that using a calendar is a useful way to organise their time-based commitments and they use one regularly, including sending invites, syncing them between their computers and phones, checking...
Working On The Weekend??

Working On The Weekend??

Question: What do the following have in common; Buying a bible Selling fish and chips Shooting Welshmen in Hereford Answer: They are all things that used to be illegal if you did them on a Sunday (although it was legal to shoot Welshmen in the 1400s as long as you did...