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 Gundula Welti | 18 Apr 2019 | Blog, Career, Stress and Wellbeing |
At a certain point in the biology curriculum here in France, pupils learn about the curious behaviour of frogs. Given where they have grown up, the pupils know a fair amount about the topic already of course, but in biology class they learn more specifically about the...
by Miles Seecharan | 7 Mar 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Miles Seecharan's Blog |
“Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we’ll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We’ll keep the red flag flying here.” ~ The Red Flag If Karl Marx had celebrated his recent 200th birthday with a trip back here to Manchester,...
by James Harwood | 30 Jan 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Engage, James Harwood's Blog, Team |
How easy it is to feel smug, you’re up and running with GTD®. You’re completing a Weekly Review®, your ‘ins’ are at zero, your lists are in order, higher horizons aligned and you’re looking through your ‘waiting for’ list to see who you can chase to prove your system...
by Edward Lamont | 22 Mar 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Creativity, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise |
I was at a dinner party recently where the conversation – implausibly – turned to ‘paperwork’. We’d exhausted topics like real-estate trends (luxury – in; affordable – out), our ongoing Circus Brexitus, and the ambient geo-political madness. Things had clearly gotten...
by guest | 29 Jun 2017 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing, Weekly Review |
James McBrien is Managing Director of Clearwater Advisers Ltd. Clearwater specialises in showing talented individuals how to be great communicators. We show people how to be natural when under pressure. As well as running individual and group coaching programmes we...
by Edward Lamont | 29 Sep 2016 | Blog, Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing |
I bumped into a former GTD participant earlier this week, and I could see from her body language that she wasn’t keen to see me. Initial pleasantries past, I found out why. “I’m off the wagon”, she said, sheepishly. “That’s great!” I countered. This did not seem to...
by Robert Peake | 23 Jul 2015 | Clarify, Engage, Organise, Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.” -David Allen One of the hallmarks of true productivity is a sense of fulfilment. In a recent article, I looked at the difference between performance as in professional...
by Robert Peake | 28 Oct 2014 | Blog |
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris The Japanese personal organiser Marie Kondo recommends thinking of one’s possessions as animate, and treating them with according...
by Todd Brown | 1 Oct 2014 | Blog |
You’re being stalked right now. No, not by people in camouflage gear and woolly hats. It’s Busy. Busy is after you. When Busy catches you, it gets you to do things. Lots of things. (Doing things is good, though, surely?) Well, Busy has rules. You have to stay in...
by Robert Peake | 15 Apr 2014 | Blog |
Have you ever gotten lost in the enjoyment of a task? Chances are it was something you were able to do well, but that also challenged you on some level. This lovely feeling, of being both competent and stretched at the same time, is something I crave, and have sought...
