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Coach's Corner: Start at the beginning

As a trainer and coach for the David Allen Company, I've found that as simple as it may sound to identify the Next Action, it takes practice to become savvy at defining the microscopic steps of what's necessary to effectively move forward. Given the amount of data coming at people in a day, an hour—or even within minutes—we've had to learn how to process information extremely quickly. As a result, people tend to conjure up images about everything that's got to happen for a project to be compl...

Coach's Corner: Know Someone Who's Applying to Colleges?The Natural Planning Model Can Help!

I recently presented a seminar where a participant brought up the project of getting her daughter into college. Since that was a current project for me as well, I wrote to her about how I applied the Natural Planning Model to this project. For those of you unfamiliar with the Natural Planning Model, it is David Allen's approach to getting projects creatively under control. The specific details of this five-phase approach can be found starting on page 54 of David Allen's book, Getting Things D

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Member Exclusive: Defining The Coach

What does being a coach at the David Allen Company conist of? What is your day to day?

Member Exclusive: Tools Giving The Wrong Idea?

Hi folks,

I've only really just gotten started with GTD, but I thought I might ask for some advice here. Because I'm a bit of a geek, of course I've been interested by the GTD tools available for computers (especially since my work requires being in lots of different places, so having a mobile s...

Member Exclusive: Tips For Netcentrics Outlook Add-in

I'm curious if anyone has any tips/tricks for the new Netcentrics Outlook add-in that isn't in the manual (we all read the manual, right)?

Member Exclusive: Webinar Archives

Kelly, where did the webinar archives go?

I don´t get my weekly review done if I don´t hear you talking and taking me through the steps! ;) I´m also missing the one on procrastination that I wanted to listen to again.

The links are not on the Connect Home page anymore and I could not find th...

Member Exclusive: Meetups

Just out of curiosity, does anyone have any stories or experiences to share on meetups they have attended with other GTDconnect members?

Member Exclusive: Nokia Phone Action List Issue

I am diving deeply into a GTD implementation and seem to have hit an issue. I purchased a Nokia E71 phone (prior to GTD) and the on board 'To Do' list does not have categories. I synchronise via MS Exchange/Outlook. I am pondering a move to a paper based action list system but want to tap into th...