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.
Are You Talking To Me?
Robert De Niro asks a very important GTD® question with his famous quote in the movie ‘Taxi Driver’. “Are you talking to me?” You wouldn’t believe how many projects are found on lists that don’t ‘talk’ to their owners. First of all, some project names don’t talk to...
This Summer’s Flotsam and Jetsam
Monika Danner has worked in corporate HR and leadership roles for more than 15 years. She has been a GTD® practitioner since 2014 and is now a certified GTD trainer for Next Action Partners in Germany. “Your projects list is a composite picture of the future you want...
Am I Going in the Right Direction with GTD?
You won’t get the great benefit of seeing your world from a higher perspective in your Weekly Review® without first having a complete Projects list. And… You won’t fully understand why you should keep a complete Projects list until you’re getting the benefit of seeing...
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.
The Long Goodbye
In a couple of days I’ll wave goodbye to my daughter. As my eldest child, she’s the first to head off to university and after that we’ll be separated by a long day of driving to East Anglia, much of it staring at the featureless flatlands of Lincolnshire or stuck...
Enforced Idleness
Susan Hunter, currently in limbo, works to create order in service and manufacturing organisations, from privately owned SMEs to large international groups, in the UK, Continental Europe and North Africa. Susan is a graduate of London University and has a diploma in...
Clean Edges
If you want to know what clean edges in a system looks like, take a peep through a microscope. Life, in its simplest form, is about integrity. When the walls of a cell break down, the cell is finished – returning to the primordial elements that once made it up....
Il Camino
For the fourth year in a row I’m out walking Il Camino, the pilgrimage in Spain. It is an amazing experience, but the connection to GTD® might not be obvious. Still, apart from the obvious checklist for all the things I want to bring – ranging from walking boots to...
On A Wing and A Prayer
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, as a more accomplished writer once put it. I was about to set off for The Caribbean, to an island I’d wanted to visit my whole life, yet I was stressed out of my mind. For the last few days, ‘the...
GTD & D&D Part II: How to Lead a Team of Dragon-Slayers
I have a confession to make. I have been routinely engaging in conflict-resolution sessions with a group of creative, talented mid-career professionals. We have been collaborating on solutions to complicated, high-stakes problems by drawing on the unique strengths and...
GTD & D&D, Part I: How to Master Your Own Work/Life Dungeon
There comes a time in one’s life to put away childish things. But there also comes a time to take them out again. After a 25-year hiatus, I took a risk and asked some of my smartest, funniest, most creative (and, naturally, busiest) friends if they would like to...
“Cheer up, it might never happen”
As cold, wet weather and grey skies descend on the British Isles, out come the scowls. A particularly cheeky response to encountering a dour-faced stranger is the peculiarly British quip, “Cheer up, it might never happen.” Obviously, there are situations...
Four Things to Do to Make the Most of Your Year-End
Well, the end of the year is around the corner. Snuck up on you, did it? You’re not alone. The good news is that for many of us, as things slow down toward year-end, we can find the space between the holiday parties to refine our GTD® systems and practices. Here are...
FOMO, YOLO, and GTD
Being often in a hurry, millennials love to abbreviate. One of my favourites is “tl;dr” (too long; didn’t read). In case you’re a millennial reading this now, here’s the “tl;dr” version of this article: if you’re afraid...
