by Todd Brown | 2 Jun 2020 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
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.
by Edward Lamont | 29 May 2020 | Career, Ed Lamont's Blog, Leadership, Working Standards |
There was a time when discipline and willpower were seen as the keys to making the consistent behavioural changes that would lead to success. Implicit in that belief was the idea that success was linked to your inner strength – your ability to get yourself to do...
by Todd Brown | 19 May 2020 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
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.
by Edward Lamont | 5 May 2020 | Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing, Weekly Review |
I’d like to tell you it was virtue, but it wasn’t. At a certain point, I just couldn’t take it anymore. The desire for change came slowly, then suddenly. I can pinpoint the moment. It was when I saw a picture of myself with a seriously overweight dog on my lap. Lucy...
by Todd Brown | 24 Mar 2020 | Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
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.
by Robert Peake | 12 Feb 2020 | Career, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
Veteran Getting Things Done® (GTD®) coach Robert Peake reflects back on how he first got started with the methodology, and what it has taught him by using it all day, every day, for the past 20 years.
by Edward Lamont | 9 Jan 2020 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Planning |
As we move into the middle of the first month of the year, the most ambitious among you are either looking at – or still gently polishing – your goals for this year. Most people will have given this ‘new year, new you’ idea some thought as we rolled into a new decade,...
by Edward Lamont | 28 Nov 2019 | Capture, Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Stress and Wellbeing |
In my last blog, on dealing with what might be called ‘morning mind’, I mentioned the idea of a default setting, and that out of the box (or bed) that setting isn’t necessarily optimised for relaxed productivity What would a useful default setting be? Well, at a bare...
by Todd Brown | 9 Jul 2019 | Leadership, Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
While GTD is a comprehensive, whole-life methodology, in this video, Todd Brown and Robert Peake talk about some of the “quick wins” you can achieve by implementing key aspects of GTD.
by Robert Peake | 22 May 2019 | Clarify, Engage, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.” -Blaise Pascal What if nobody likes this blog? What if I’m all out of ideas about GTD®? What if I go to write and nothing shows up?...
by Todd Brown | 28 Sep 2018 | Planning, Todd Brown's Blog, Videos |
This week I talk about the power of outcome thinking and defining visions for ourselves of the future we want to create. Using the Getting Things Done® (GTD®) methodology, we can create the best possible outcomes based on desirable visions of our future, leading to a...
by Edward Lamont | 12 Jul 2018 | Career, Ed Lamont's Blog, Talent development |
You know how sometimes recently the world seems to be upside down? Well for most of last weekend my world was upside down, and I’m not talking about the geo-political farrago that is our daily fare of late. I was in fact upside down, learning to do a free-standing...
by Todd Brown | 15 Mar 2018 | Engage, Organise, Planning, Todd Brown's Blog |
I’ve been thinking lately a lot about what defines success, and the messages that we receive in the marketplace of ideas about being “more successful.” Usually, those messages are based on the belief that success is externally defined, that there are objective...
by Todd Brown | 16 Jun 2016 | Creativity, Planning, Todd Brown's Blog |
“There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labour of thinking” – Sir Joshua Reynolds Doing a bit of a spring clean this week, I came across a book I bought back in the early days of the web called “Don’t make me think”. It was written by...
by Todd Brown | 19 May 2016 | Clarify, Creativity, Todd Brown's Blog |
Over the years in my blogs I’ve naturally quoted a lot from David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done. David has an astonishing ability to encapsulate powerful ideas in pithy sayings that stick with you.* But one of my hobbies is also collecting quotes from...
by Robert Peake | 23 Mar 2016 | Engage, Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Weekly Review |
Taking on a new goal can be easy when the path to get there is clear, and the steps along the way are fun. However, for those parts of life that are ambiguous or unpleasant, creating and holding to a vision of success is all the more important. I recently lost my...
by Todd Brown | 29 Apr 2014 | Blog |
Last week my father had a birthday, and it’s got me thinking about celebrations. We celebrate things that represent progress, like the calendar reaching another milestone; though in my father’s case he says he would prefer not to be reminded of the number of...
by Todd Brown | 11 Mar 2014 | Blog |
I was working with a client a few weeks ago in a one-on-one coaching session. He works in a creative industry, and has had a very successful career. He brought us in to help him get back in control of his work world, which seemed likely to overwhelm him. Given his...
by Robert Peake | 14 Jan 2013 | Blog, Robert Peake's Blog |
“When you know what you’re doing, efficiency and style are your only improvement opportunities.” -David Allen In my early twenties, I took up surfing. At first, I approached it competitively. After countless wipeouts, I began to realise that the...
