Lifesaver! A GTD® Guest Blog By An NHS Doctor
Est. Reading time: 4 minutes All too frequently in recent times, in the newspapers and on the nightly news, we’ve become accustomed to seeing images of exhausted NHS doctors at the peak of stress and overwhelm. However, those images are unlikely to be of Dr Mark...
Creating Focus In 2023 (Video Podcast)
In today’s podcast episode, Robert and Todd discuss creating more focus at the start of the new year, to help you achieve more with less stress.
The Top Tip For Handling Change At Work
It can be overwhelming when you are faced with change at work – whether it is new and more responsibilities or new people. But there is one tip, a great exercise, in order to handle this well and help you get through it with clarity and less...
Why Working Harder Isn’t Always More Productive
Earlier this month I was forwarded an article by Arianna Huffington regarding what she calls “burnout deniers” focused in particular on Elon Musk’s recent take-over of Twitter and reports of Musk giving “his staffers an ultimatum — they could commit to an...
How To Start Your Resolutions
It’s the new year and that means everyone has new goals and resolutions. But if you’ve found they don’t tend to work, perhaps you’ve missed the simple key to get started. In today’s blog we confirm that true lifestyle change is...
Getting Christmas 2023 Done And Enjoy Christmas 2022
Three days and then it’s finally Christmas! You have all your gifts ready, all invitations for your parties are sent out, you said yes to exactly what you needed most, you said no to all nonesense. Your work is already finished, you’ve done a thorough...
Why You Need More Than E-Mail Management
E-mail management is an important part of of working more efficiently – but is there more you could be doing to truly improve your...
Stop Beating Yourself Up With GTD!
GTD® is meant to create a better workflow and help you achieve greater work life balance – but be careful not to beat yourself up with it! Let’s talk about being a little kinder with yourself and your practice.
Play It Again
There can be a lot of value in re-reading or re-watching something, and today Todd discusses how this can also apply to your GTD...
Good Morning, Beautiful!
What a lovely way to start your day – “Good morning, Beautiful”! This is how one of my current coaching clients is greeted every morning. The words aren’t from a loved one – although I’m sure that happens, too – but from her GTD® system. I smiled broadly when I...
GTD® And Others? (Video Podcast)
In this week’s podcast episode Robert and Todd discuss how to deal with the people in your life who do not follow GTD principles as part of their work-life balance.
Working From Home : A new tool or new approach needed ? PART I
2020, the pandemic strikes. The stressful health environment, a second child on its way and my job at a financial services company called for a firm grip on my productivity. Already in March 2020 we’d been called to work from home and before chopping down any...
GTD® And Humour (Video Podcast)
In today’s podcast episode, Todd and Robert discuss the lighter side of life, and the GTD® practice.
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...
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.
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...
GTD: Craftsmanship For Knowledge Workers
Can the concepts of craftsmanship be applied to knowledge workers?...
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...
Why Bother With GTD®?
If you’re just starting out learning “Getting Things Done®”, perhaps having read the book, and now reading this to deepen your understanding, or having been on one of our courses and wanting more of the benefits you’ve already discovered, then it might be worth...
