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Gundula Welti is a certified GTD\u00ae Trainer and has 21 years of experience in both buying and sales roles within a large international corporation. She is highly specialised in sales and negotiations and uses GTD in all aspects of her life. She says that GTD helped her conjugate the businesswoman, mother, wife, cook, maid and car pool manager, while taking singing, tap-dancing and yoga classes as well as getting certifications as GTD Trainer\u2026 all while starting her own company six years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cholesterol has been declared public health enemy number one, as it is responsible for cluttering what is effectively our internal blood irrigation system: the ultimate cause of a looming heart attack.<\/p>\n

Doctors often use the analogy of plumbing: imagine the pipes in your house becoming cluttered with dirt and sediment. The diameter of the pipes become smaller, the pressure builds up, and an accident is just around the corner.<\/p>\n

This summer I put on my plumber\/surgeon\u2019s cap and opened up my whole GTD\u00ae system. I was horrified. The proverbial sediment had discretely settled in just about everywhere! Corners had filled with clutter and shockingly, I\u2019ve become blind to all of it. I just didn\u2019t see this residue collecting because some of the items had been sitting there for months, building up so very inconspicuously.<\/p>\n

However, I wasn\u2019t oblivious to the fact that something needed my attention, and that\u2019s why I had grabbed the scrubs of a surgeon in the first place. The pressure had been building up before the summer break and my system was on the verge of a heart attack. And taking a few days off wasn\u2019t the only solution.<\/p>\n

Equipped with a scalpel, I considered each item clogging up the tubes and removed it, right after having answered the two most powerful GTD-questions:<\/p>\n