From Quietly Quitting To Simply Stopping
The weather wasn’t the only thing that was especially hot this Summer; so was the debate on social media as #QuietQuitting went viral and raged like a forest fire. ‘Quiet quitting’ is a phrase coined in a TikTok video that argued for an end to the kind of endemic...I ❤️ Airplanes
During a recent Train the Trainer Level 2 Seminar, we each exchanged our own personal best practices that make us advanced GTD-ers. As we all know, the GTD Weekly Review® is the one area where participants don’t get an instant reward, and therefore don’t always see...How Long Does It Take To Learn GTD®? (Video Podcast)
In our latest podcast episode, Todd and Robert discuss how long it takes to learn GTD and the fact that this is a journey.
The Grateful Ed
The roof of the tent was glowing red. Not a good thing in dry conditions in a forest, what with the wildfires and all. I shucked my sleeping bag, unzipped the tent door, and staggered outside to take a look. It took a moment to get my bearings, but then it became...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...What Is The ROI Of A GTD® System?
A good workflow system is priceless – but perhaps we can quantify the actual Return On Investment in today’s...What To Do If Work Overwhelms You ( 5 Top Tips)
Are you feeling overwhelmed by work? You’re definitely not alone and we are here to help with these 5 Tips you can use immediately to reduce stress and and work...What Would Maverick Do?
“I feel the need, the need for speed.” – Top Gun Whisper it, but more than once down the years I’ve heard it said that Tom Cruise is a fan of GTD®. He’d be a great GTD ambassador if it were true. Let’s face it, he gets things done – over 75 movies,...Psion’s Friction
“Oh, oh, oh, look at me, sending important communications from the terrace of a café in Paris!” That would have been the unfortunate thought bubble above my head, had some curse revealed my thinking on a business trip to the City of Light back in the late...GTD: Craftsmanship For Knowledge Workers
Can the concepts of craftsmanship be applied to knowledge workers?...Testing The Boundaries Of … Idleness?
Have you ever asked yourself why you actually want to be more productive?An Expensive Time Peace
I thought my last post had settled it. I’d made the point about the value of investing in yourself and your people. Readers would get it, change their behaviour, job done. A few days later some feedback came in: Dear Ed, A great post with little or nothing to...Why Doesn’t Everyone Do GTD®?
The success of GTD® in the first two decades since the book was first published is extraordinary. Millions of copies sold, translated into many languages, taught by certified trainers around the world, an established global licenced partner network, and all still...What’s The Difference Between An Input And An Inbox?
We are overloaded with input from so many areas in our lives these days, so let’s discuss what distinguishes an input from an inbox to help your journey towards higher...Thinking In Four Dimensions
I’m old enough to remember life before email, and it makes me shudder. I love email (and, truth be told, text messaging too) because it’s asynchronous. I write the message when it suits me to write it, and you read it when it suits you to read it. Unlike an...Lost Benefit Analysis
“That’s too expensive for us.” We’d been talking about offering our services to her people, and the remark caught me a bit off-guard. She was the CEO of a decent sized business, who had just finished rhapsodizing about the benefits she’d been getting from using GTD®...The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Back in the day I was a commuter. On the face of it the trip was a daily grind; from Manchester to Sheffield and back again by train over The Pennines – the ‘backbone’ of England – but in actual fact I loved it because it gave me a protected bubble of...Who Does GTD®? (Video Podcast)
Sometimes we get so caught up in our day-to-day work, simply ‘doing’, often over-busy and fighting fires – that we lose the bigger picture. We can often find ourselves being driven by the ‘latest and loudest’ rather than the things that will really help us achieve our bigger goals and objectives.
This loss of perspective is normal, but the Getting Things Done® (GTD®) Horizons of Focus model can help ensure that your daily work is aligned to big picture thinking – the higher-level values and your wider purpose.
Todd Brown and Robert Peake discuss the Horizons of Focus model and how it can be used to help drive your work, be guided by your purpose, and see the big picture in everything you do.