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Episode #314: Weekly Review Best Practices

Are you among those who have not yet made the review a habit? Experience what David Allen calls the "critical success factor" with GTD, by going through a complete GTD Weekly Review. You'll experience all 11 steps of the process, with helpful advice along the way.

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Episode #313: David Allen and Skippy Mesirow

David talks with Skippy Mesirow, a GTD enthusiast who is passionate about making a difference in public service, by starting with "the human in the mirror." You can hear Skippy's podcast and find out more on his website.

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Episode #312: David Allen talks with Marcus Baur

David talks with Marcus Baur about goals. Marcus describes his journey with finding ways to track goals, and visualize them to support their completion. He suggests two questions to ask about any goal: What's the pain that's relieved by completing this goal? Or, what's the gain to be achieved? 

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Episode #311: Explore the Best Use of Your Calendar

In this webinar recording, we explore the best use of your calendar, and how your calendar relates to the three types of work that you do. If you are new to GTD, this will help you build a solid foundation to support your practice. If you are experienced, you can update your practice if changes are indicated.

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The Curse of the Eternally Urgent

Ignoring next actions on secondarily important actions and projects because you are too busy and concerned with urgent things fosters continual crisis management.

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Episode #310: Slice of GTD Life with Jung

In addition to describing her GTD journey and the tools she uses, Jung has much to share about knowledge work, and the allocation of resources--and how GTD practitioners can evolve with the times as valuable contributors. We start with the skill of knowing what to do, to the skill of organizing the data and resources. But the more seasoned we become, wisdom joins skill--in application. That is, we can allocate resources in a way that is functional and applicable.

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Turns Out, GTD Is Child’s Play

Seeing kids light up as they gain control over their world made me wonder—what if every student had access to these skills? Imagine growing up with GTD as second nature.

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The One List People Trust

The problem with most people's system is that the calendar is the only list they trust, and more than 95% of what they really need to keep track of is not a set of appointments but all the things to be done in between them.

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Have Your Lists Become Listless?

Come back to the purpose of your lists. Are they creating freedom and expansive thinking?

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The Way Out is Through

You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you’re not doing. We have to loosen the grip of unclear agreements with ourselves to be free to follow our intuitive hunches and creative focus.

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