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 Todd Brown | 24 Apr 2020 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing |
During such uncertainty and the challenging times that we face with the COVID-19 crisis, it is important to remain nimble and adaptive to get the best out of your productivity and focus. In our latest video, Todd Brown talks about how to keep your Getting Things Done®...
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 davidgriffin | 10 Feb 2020 | Blog, Capture, Stress and Wellbeing |
In probably my favourite Peter Sellers movie, the protagonist (Chance, the gardener) is blissfully unaware of anything more complicated than that which is right in front of him in the moment. The closing line of the film, from a speech by the US President, is: “Life...
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 Miles Seecharan | 1 May 2019 | Horizons of Focus, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
Andy Hall knows first-hand how it feels to sink into severe depression, anxiety and breakdown, but he’s also learned how to fight back. Here, in light of the recent Mental Health Awareness month, he shares his experience of how GTD® has helped turn his life around....
by Todd Brown | 11 Apr 2019 | Engage, Todd Brown's Blog |
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.
by Todd Brown | 14 Feb 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog, Videos |
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...
by Edward Lamont | 6 Dec 2018 | Ed Lamont's Blog, Engage, Reflect |
I had a lovely exchange with a taxi driver the other day. That might not seem like news enough for a blog, but if rarity drives value, then such a thing in a London cabbie is very valuable indeed. They are a self-selected bunch, and the filters for job success seem to...
by Todd Brown | 2 Nov 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Todd Brown's Blog |
This week, I talk about how obsession with certain parts of the GTD® practice may not always necessarily be the most productive approach.
by Robert Peake | 11 Oct 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Collaboration, Engage, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
‘Seriously? They’re posting business-critical information as a reply to a private Facebook thread?’ I was as incredulous as my client at this lack of basic ‘communication hygiene’ – expecting colleagues to find what they needed to...
by Edward Lamont | 6 Sep 2018 | Capture, Ed Lamont's Blog |
“What do you see?” The question took me a bit by surprise. I was just settling in for lunch with my friend Dan. Pleasantries had been exchanged, and I was scanning the menu when he’d reached his wrist across the table and held it where I couldn’t miss it. “Uhm, your...
by Todd Brown | 1 Sep 2018 | Organise, Planning, Todd Brown's Blog, Videos |
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...
by Robert Peake | 15 Aug 2018 | Engage, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
“Sweet dreams are made of this / who am I to disagree? / I travel the world and the seven seas / everybody’s looking for something.” -Eurythmics Sleep means energy, and energy is precious. Just ask any new parent, shift worker, or long-haul pilot. In...
by Edward Lamont | 9 Aug 2018 | Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Engage, Reflect |
“Not my circus, not my monkeys.” Ever heard that one? It is one of my favourite linguistic imports. If you are not familiar with it, it is the very visual Polish take on staying clear of problems that are not yours to solve, and for me it captures what might be a...
by Miles Seecharan | 26 Jul 2018 | Engage, Horizons of Focus, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Planning, Reflect |
Start with WHY. If you’ve kept current with leadership content on the web in the last decade then you might know that this is Simon Sinek’s thing, making him famous after a 2009 TED talk that went viral The talk itself looks slightly retro if you watch it again now –...
by Robert Peake | 18 Jul 2018 | Capture, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
“All that is very well,” answered Candide, “but let us cultivate our garden.” -Voltaire I was fuming. I could feel the blood surging up to my head, fuelling a litany of judgmental thoughts. Brexit. Trump. That maniac on the M1. Something had...
by Todd Brown | 15 Feb 2018 | Employee engagement, Horizons of Focus, Leadership, Todd Brown's Blog |
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...
by Robert Peake | 1 Feb 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Planning, Robert Peake's Blog |
In their newfound enthusiasm for discovering the freedom and relief of getting everything out of their head, journeymen GTD® practitioners can fall into the trap of believing that small lists are inherently bad. Indeed, David Allen, creator of the Getting Things Done®...
by guest | 30 Nov 2017 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing |
Rebecca Stevens is a Manchester-based psychologist. She is registered as a Practitioner Occupational Psychologist with the Health Professions Council and an Associate Fellow & Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational...
by Todd Brown | 16 Mar 2017 | Clarify, Organise, Todd Brown's Blog |
If you’ve been to one of our seminars or had a bit of our coaching, you’ve no doubt heard us talk about ways of working that allow you to deal with email backlog. If you’ve attended one of our two-day seminars and implemented the new ways of working in your email, you...
by Miles Seecharan | 13 Oct 2016 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Creativity, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing |
In ‘The Land of the Rising Sun’ during the 1990s, the madogiwazoku – which is Japanese for ‘the window tribe’ – were ageing employees who were no longer seen as useful to the organisation. However, since there was a reluctance in Japan’s corporate culture...
