No News is Good News
Let’s start today’s blog with some breathing exercises. Place your hands on your belly and breeeeeeeeathe… belly rising, belly sinking… breathe in… 2… 3… breathe out… 2… 3… And rest. I’m kidding, of course. But seriously – the last four years has been a bit of a...
Using GTD to Sharpen Your Thinking and Unlock Your Best Work
Getting Things Done® (GTD®) veteran Robert Peake provides an insight into how to sharpen your tools to sharpen your work output.
GTD From the Top – Episode 3
Welcome back to GTD® From the Top, a blog series in which I’m distilling the core ideas from David Allen’s Getting Things Done® methodology into a blog-sized narrative. For those of you who are experienced GTDers, I’m hoping I’ll provide some insights and new ways of...
Supercharge Your Virtual Meetings With GTD (Video Podcast)
In this Episode, Todd and Robert share insights into virtual meetings and how GTD® provides an essential tool for improving these.
Is Your GTD System Too Complex? (Video Podcast)
In this episode, we ask is your GTD® system overbuilt? How complex is too complex when it comes to creating your GTD system? We take a deep dive into the setup of your GTD system and how to streamline your lists, create practical and easily accessible indexes of your ‘stuff’, and reduce friction in your workflow.
GTD for Couples (Video Podcast)
In this episode, we discuss how GTD® has a positive influence on relationships and the benefits it has for couples.
Is That Really Off Your Mind?
GTD® coach Robert Peake shares three common ways in which people often accumulate a lingering amount of stress by keeping things in their mind – even when they have the best of intentions to do otherwise. More importantly, he shares the keys to truly getting...
Staying Sane in the New Reality – a Discussion With David Allen and Tim Harford (Video Podcast)
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.
Staying Sane in the New Reality – a Discussion With David Allen and Tim Harford (Video Podcast)
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.
Navigating desired outcomes with GTD (Video Podcast)
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.
How to Achieve Focus and Balance When Working From Home
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,...
How To Be Adaptive During Challenges Like COVID-19
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®...
Why the GTD Mindsweep is the Best Life Hack You’ll Ever Need
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.
GTD in Uncertain Times (Video Podcast)
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.
Being There
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...
How Search is Killing Your Productivity
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.
How One Man Used GTD to Recover from Mental Illness
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....
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.
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...
The Gift of Presence
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...
Can Obsession Get in the Way of Your GTD® Practice?
This week, I talk about how obsession with certain parts of the GTD® practice may not always necessarily be the most productive approach.
Surviving Digital Climate Change with GTD
‘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...
