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Episode #137: Slice of GTD® Life with Lars Rothschild Henriksen

Lars Rothschild Henriksen describes his journey from working as a software engineer to becoming the only certified GTD® trainer in Denmark. His inspirational story is based on his Horizon 5 interest in helping people, and finding GTD® to be a very effective way to accomplish that purpose. He has used a wide variety of digital tools to track commitments, starting with Remember the Milk, then OneNote, Wunderlist, Outlook, and currently, Todoist. He also uses Evernote and OneNote for different types of reference.

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Episode #136: Slice of GTD® Life with Stephen Reese

Stephen Reese is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He has long been a student of productivity, with years of history using tools from low-tech to high-tech. You'll enjoy hearing him discuss his GTD® practice, especially his "habits of the mind for the intellectual craftsman."

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Episode #135: Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen

Let's end the year with a compilation of all of David's Two Minute Tips as these turbulent times continue, plus these are gems you can reference at any point of your GTD® life. Happy New Year!

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Episode #134: Integrating the Higher Horizons

This is an installation and implementation session on the higher Horizons of Focus. We will spend time exploring if anything has your attention at each of the horizons, and will end with integrating the horizons at the project and next action levels.

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We’re All Alone in this Together

The best teams and relationships are the ones in which the players all acknowledge they’re each alone in the endeavor together.

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Episode #133: David Allen chats with William Elliott

David explores the psychology of productivity with William Elliott, a counseling psychologist and GTD® master trainer in South Africa. William describes his own journey with attention-deficit disorder, and finding GTD® as a support for becoming more organized. He has wise words about how humility and accepting our limitations can improve our productivity and the overall quality of our lives. You'll likely resonate with his description of the background stress around "What do I say no to?" and how GTD® helps with decision making and prioritizing. Regarding what's on our lists, he notes that there is an advance beyond safely ignoring to reach comfortably ignoring. Responding to a question from David, William says that his "brain has accepted that GTD® is the life raft." (January 2018)

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Episode #132: What to Review When

From the archives (July 2013) - Senior Coaches Meg Edwards and Kelly Forrister share the 3 types of ways to review your GTD system. You'll learn about what's best to review on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and yearly basis to keep on track and aligned with what's important to you. Includes helpful tips around reviewing projects, action lists, goals, areas of focus, and more.

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Episode #131: Too Much to Do

David Allen talks about the question, "Is there really too much to do?"

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Episode #130: Road to Blackbelt

From the archives (May 2010): Audio Only version of the third episode in the Road to Black Belt "boot camp" series, where Coaches Meg Edwards & Kelly Forrister take a deep dive into the Review & Do phases of GTD.

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Episode #131: Outlook and the GTD® Add-In

From the archives: Kelly Forrister and Dean Hering talk about the Outlook Add-In from NetCentrics.

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