Ring The Alarm
In his book ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Japan’, Pico Iyer describes something unusual that happened on Japanese television during coverage of an important baseball game; “In the final game of the Japan Series, with the entire seven-month season on the line, suddenly, in...
Never Decreasing Circles
I’ve been reading a book on human movement concurrently with a book on the lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle of a productivity expert, for sure. These days, the fittest of us get something like 300 minutes – or 6 hours – of movement...
Tips For A Productive Summer
Todd Brown provides some useful tips about how to make the most of summer by using the time to get more productive. It’s an opportunity for you to review your organisational system, your lists, your tools, and your processes for work. ...
How Software Can Both Help and Hinder Your Productivity (Video Podcast)
Software is a permanent fixture for many of us, and while we often implement software platforms to enhance our productivity, it can in fact hinder it. Robert Peake, GTD® veteran who has an extensive background in software and technology, talks with Todd Brown about how best to navigate software platforms to support your GTD practice and overall productivity.
Is Your Mindset Getting In The Way Of Your Success? (Video Podcast)
In our latest Change Your Game with GTD® podcast, Robert Peake and Todd Brown discuss how the Getting Things Done® methodology can help when returning to normal life post lockdown.
Coming Out Of Lockdown With The Help Of GTD (Video Podcast)
In our latest Change Your Game with GTD® podcast, Robert Peake and Todd Brown discuss how the Getting Things Done® methodology can help when returning to normal life post lockdown.
Having Fun with GTD (Video Podcast)
In our latest Change Your Game with GTD® podcast, we discuss having fun with the Getting Things Done® methodology.
Calendar Use… And Abuse (Video Podcast)
In our latest Change Your Game with GTD® podcast, we discuss the use – and abuse – of calendars, and cover the best practices of calendar and diary management using the Getting Things Done® methodology.
Flow, flow, flow your boat…
Again? Can’t be. We stopped paddling to allow ourselves to focus. Sure enough, there they were: an older couple, drifting along in their inflatable canoe. Ahead of us, again. My canoeing partner and I exchanged minor expletives under our breath. We were about 90...
The Schoolwork Tsunami
Good news for knowledge workers – if your job primarily involves thinking about words or numbers then you can easily work from anywhere, right? Several weeks into lockdown, if you ask that question in one of the UK’s 5 million working parent households you might...
Why the GTD Mindsweep is the Best Life Hack You’ll Ever Need
In these uncertain times, Robert Peake reminds us why the GTD® mindsweep is the simplest, yet most effective technique to help us feel more in control and less bogged down by the things going on our world.
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 Your GTD® ‘Climate’ Look Like?
Todd Brown talks through the difference between ‘weather’ and ‘climate’ when it comes to your GTD® practice.
Self-Help Tips For the Christmas Holiday Season
Todd Brown talks about how to use your Getting Things Done® (GTD®) system to help you get through the Christmas holiday season as friction-free as possible. Utilising the right tools and processes to keep you organised during this busy festive period will result in...
A Tale of Two Children
Any parent with more than one child knows that however identically you think you treat them, kids grow up completely different to each other. It’s a humbling realisation, how little influence you really have. I have two children who have moved through high school two...
GTD on the Planet of the Apes
I’m not a fan of fitness. What’s to like? Basically it hurts while I’m doing it, again the next day, and then – go figure – it’s worse again on the day after that. Seemingly not a lot of upside in all of that, but by day three after a workout I’m feeling great and...
“What?” Maybe Better to Ask “Why?”
Last week, I hosted a regular conference call with our certified trainers and coaches here in the UK. One of the many hats I wear at Next Action Associates is that of Master Trainer, which basically means that I look after developing and certifying our trainers, and...
Absolutely Not, and Yes, Absolutely
When we help someone build their GTD® ‘external brain’; their ‘trusted list keeper’ for remembering all of their commitments, sometimes they feel that they don’t want to put all their personal items into their company computer. This can be for various reasons: they...
Avoid This BIG Beginner Mistake with GTD
There is a big trap that people new to implementing GTD® can fall into. Robert Peake explains how to sidestep it.
“…Try Something Else”
I was recently in the audience at a Q&A session with David Allen. My question to him was something I have answered many times myself while running seminars and coaching people and, although I think my answer is quite practised and complete, I wanted to see how...
What’s in Your GTD® System?
This week I take a deep dive into the Getting Things Done® (GTD®) system and how we can look at possible refinements to be...
Creation and Completion with GTD
As knowledge workers, it can be hard to grasp that our work is never going to be ‘done’. The idea is to be constructively engaged in our process of creation and completion. Some thoughts around how GTD® can help you optimise the flow of your work.
