by Todd Brown | 2 Jun 2020 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
In this episode of Change Your Game with GTD®, David Allen, Founder of the Getting Things Done® (GTD®) methodology, and Tim Harford, economist and Financial Times columnist, talk to Todd Brown of Next Action Associates about the current COVID-19 reality and how to stay sane during these unprecedented times.
by Todd Brown | 19 May 2020 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
In this episode of Change Your Game with GTD®, Todd Brown and Robert Peake discuss how Getting Things Done® (GTD®) helps you to navigate successful outcomes, and how adapting appropriately can help us to optimise productivity and wellbeing during challenging times.
by Robert Peake | 6 May 2020 | Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Weekly Review, Working Standards |
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,...
by Robert Peake | 9 Apr 2020 | Capture, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
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.
by Todd Brown | 24 Mar 2020 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
In this episode of Change Your Game with GTD®, Todd Brown and Robert Peake share insights into how Getting Things Done® (GTD®) can help you stay positively and productively focused during uncertain or challenging times.
by Todd Brown | 10 Mar 2020 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
In this episode of Change Your Game with GTD®, Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about how to appropriately engage with many different kinds of “review” to help you feel aligned with your purpose and direction in life.
by Todd Brown | 28 Feb 2020 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
In this episode of Change Your Game with GTD®, Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about how to focus on the places GTD can benefit you most, being led by “what has your attention” to make strides with your productivity practice.
by Robert Peake | 12 Feb 2020 | Career, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
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.
by Robert Peake | 14 Jan 2020 | Engage, Robert Peake's Blog, Videos |
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.
by Todd Brown | 14 Jan 2020 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
How to “de-squish” — that is, elegantly clarify — those items that seem vague or ambiguous, using GTD best practices.
by Todd Brown | 10 Dec 2019 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
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.
by Robert Peake | 5 Dec 2019 | Horizons of Focus, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Weekly Review |
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...
by Robert Peake | 5 Nov 2019 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
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.
by Robert Peake | 8 Oct 2019 | Collaboration, Employee engagement, Organise, Robert Peake's Blog |
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...
by Robert Peake | 24 Sep 2019 | Blog, Collaboration, Robert Peake's Blog |
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.
by Robert Peake | 12 Sep 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
There is a big trap that people new to implementing GTD® can fall into. Robert Peake explains how to sidestep it.
by Robert Peake | 20 Aug 2019 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
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.
by Todd Brown | 9 Jul 2019 | Leadership, Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
While GTD is a comprehensive, whole-life methodology, in this video, Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about some of the “quick wins” you can achieve by implementing key aspects of GTD.
by Robert Peake | 24 Jun 2019 | Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
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...
by Todd Brown | 4 Jun 2019 | Leadership, Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
In this video, Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about the read-and-review category and how it can help you take control of information overload. Click to play this episode Subscribe to the Podcast Transcript [music] 00:00 Robert Peake: Welcome everyone, once again, to...
by Robert Peake | 22 May 2019 | Clarify, Engage, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
“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?...
by Todd Brown | 16 Apr 2019 | Leadership, Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
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...
by Robert Peake | 28 Mar 2019 | Clarify, Engage, Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Weekly Review |
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...
by Todd Brown | 12 Mar 2019 | Leadership, Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
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,...
