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....
How To Improvise for Success
How do you improvise in life to create success? Here’s a useful insight into how to improvise effectively, make good choices, and make progress in your life, despite the challenging environment we are currently living in.
Staying Sane in the New Reality – a Discussion With David Allen and Tim Harford (Video Podcast)
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.
Staying Sane in the New Reality – a Discussion With David Allen and Tim Harford (Video Podcast)
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.
Healthy High Performance Culture on a Team
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...
Navigating desired outcomes with GTD (Video Podcast)
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.
How I Lost 31kg With GTD
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...
GTD in Uncertain Times (Video Podcast)
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.
What I Learned From Doing 20 Years of GTD®
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.
Productivity and Self-Obsession Part III – Creating Your Future Self
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,...
Productivity and Self-Image – Mining Your Past as Preparation for Today
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...
Quick Wins with GTD (Video Podcast)
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.
Put the Ukulele Down
“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?...
GTD, the Future Vision and the Power of Outcome Thinking
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...
Back to Basics – a high leverage approach to success and fulfilment
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...
Success is Personal
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...
What GTD can’t do for you
“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...
What can we learn about GTD from successful people who haven’t used it?
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...
Successful outcomes: the invisible tether
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...Worth Celebrating
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...Want to experience less stress? Create more tension.
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...
