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...
Get Therapy, or a Project List?
“I think I might need to go back into therapy.” Close to tears, my friend was clearly in a bad place. “I’ve been having huge problems at work, and I feel like something really bad is about to happen.” She’d called me out of the blue, close to the end of her tether....
How GTD® Has Helped Monzo’s CFO Through Career Transitions and the Covid World
We discuss how Getting Things Done® (GTD®) has helped Alwyn Jones, CFO of Monzo bank, navigate career transitions, adapt to new environments and cope with the COVID world. [music] 00:05 Todd Brown: Hello, everyone, and welcome to another Change Your Game with GTD...
Three Fastest Strategies to Reduce Overwhelm
Feeling overwhelmed, with too much to do and not enough time? Do you feel like you have too much information coming at you from all directions, and too much to think about? Here are the three fastest strategies to reduce overwhelm, with guidance on how you can manage...
Enigma Variations
Enigma: a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand (see Weekly Review®) Variation: a different or distinct form or version of something First, I should mention that many people who tell me they can’t stick with a Weekly Review habit are also those...
How To Make Your Lists REALLY Work For You
In this video, GTD® veteran Robert Peake outlines how you can make your ‘to-do’ lists much more functional, why your brain needs help when it comes to getting stuff done, and how you can reduce friction when you need to work on something on your...
Why Do You Want to be Productive? No, Really…
What motivates you to get things done – is ‘productivity’ connected to a greater sense of purpose or a deeper ‘why’? Here’s how you might want to approach the concept of productivity differently, to make progress towards those...
Three Common Misunderstandings of Self-Taught GTD Fans
Because David’s bestselling book is so comprehensive, people often can get a long way with self-teaching. However, in this video veteran GTD coach Robert Peake shares some of the common misunderstandings he has come across from those who try too hard to do...
Why Are You Reading This?
Trusting your choices about how you spend your time and focus your limited resources is a key desired outcome of ‘Getting Things Done®’. If you can spend most of your days, weeks, months and years trusting your judgment that what you are doing is what you...
Down to Earth with a Thump
My GTD® origin story is evergreen. There was a point in my life when I had a technical, fairly transactional role that I was doing well in, and to prove that no good deed goes unpunished, I was promoted to manager. I was rubbish at it: woefully unprepared for the rash...
Turn Your Problems Into Projects
How to turn your problems into projects, be more successful, and achieve those long-term goals. In a world of change and challenges, here’s an insight into how GTD® can help you to get control of your world and take the right steps to move forward with progress....
Moving Up An Octave – What More Can You Get From GTD®?
Let’s start with you answering for yourself: What more do you want to get from GTD®; if you were to be coached – one-to-one by a GTD expert – what improvements would you hope to achieve? This blog post isn’t about any ‘new’ GTD ideas, rather about taking...
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,...
KISS
Every time I am given a seat above the wings on an airplane I am amazed by the instructions written on them: « Don’t walk outside this area ». The written instructions get even shorter on the jet engine itself: « no step » and « no grab » can be seen there. Having...
What Does Finished Actually Look Like?
Neuroscientists have confirmed it over and over. Our brains are very clever. So clever and trained that they cannot make out the difference between the real thing and what we imagine. Ever woken up from a nightmare sweating? Wasn’t real. Even though your body had a...
What Does Your GTD® ‘Climate’ Look Like?
Todd Brown talks through the difference between ‘weather’ and ‘climate’ when it comes to your GTD® practice.
20/20 Vision
If ever there was a time to get our visions perfectly clear, it must surely be in 2020! Often at New Year, people scout around for opportunities and ideas to add to their ‘Resolutions’ for the coming year. Trying to remember or think of great things they could achieve...
Wrangling Squishy Outcomes with GTD (Video Podcast)
How to “de-squish” — that is, elegantly clarify — those items that seem vague or ambiguous, using GTD best practices.
Sharing GTD Systems at Home (Video Podcast)
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.
One GTD System or Two? (Video Podcast)
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.
The Hole in the Ground
In traditional English seaside towns, some things never change – the fish’n’chip shops, the amusement arcades, the ice cream parlours and the seafood stands, to name but a few. I know this because I grew up in one on the north Norfolk coast in the 1970s and in...
Do You Love or Hate Your GTD Projects List? (Video Podcast)
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.
