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December 5, 2016
David Allen named one of the world’s most popular motivational speakers and personalities
David Allen was featured by CNN as one of the world’s most popular motivational speakers and personalities, along with Oprah, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, and more.
December 2, 2016
November 15, 2016
Community Story: John Corrigan
The GTD methodology has been absolutely transformational and revolutionary in my life. I bought the audio book three weeks ago and have listened to it twice already. Just WOW—the difference I see and what others see in me and how I manage all aspects of my life from work, family, and play is phenomenal. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
–John Corrigan
November 11, 2016
Episode #24 – Making It All Work
Feeling overwhelmed? This talk from David Allen is a wonderful overview of the keys to control & perspective. Includes participant Q&A at the end.
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November 10, 2016
Personal Productivity and the Inner Seven-Year-Old
There seems to be someone about seven years old inside of all of us, who never matures, and whose behavior either allows us lots of creative expansion and productivity, or causes us to crash and burn.
It seems that the smart (adult) part of me has known what to do for years. It knows that in order to be productive, just focus on positive outcomes, capture the moving parts into trusted buckets, and move on the most important thing. It’s that other part of me that has to be dealt with—the one that basically supplies my physical and emotional energy.
Let’s talk about managing a seven-year-old. Think it would be a good idea to take a seven-year-old kid into a room, sit them down, and demand that they handle the 563 things on their mind, clarify their life mission and purpose, decide their strategic objectives, roll them down to action plans, and get going…but if they screw up once, you’re going to berate them? Hardly an effective model, we would guess. But how many of us do that to the equivalent kid inside of us!? We need to work with it more appropriately to its age and capabilities.
Ever clean a refrigerator by accident? You were scrounging in there for lunch one Saturday and discovered “mystery meat” wrapped in foil. “Ugh!…wonder what else is back in there?” Two hours later you’ve got a bright shining fridge, and you feel great! That’s the seven-year-old. It loves to work, loves to complete, loves to accomplish…but one at a time. It has no sense of past or future. Want to know how to cause your energy to collapse? While cleaning the refrigerator, think of your taxes you ought to be doing! Crash and burn.
Capture and track all your projects and actions. Get them out of your head and into an objective, accessible system. So when you review it all, you can give a simple, single direction at every moment to the part of you that can really get it done.
–David Allen
This essay appeared in David Allen’s Productive Living Newsletter. Subscribe for free here.
October 27, 2016
The 2017 GTD Organizer is here!
The 2017 GTD® Organizer is an elegant and functional editable PDF organizer, built on the GTD principles. Available in letter or junior size.
Format:
The GTD Organizer comes as an editable PDF that can be used in several effective ways:
1. As a PDF file that you type into and store electronically
2. As a PDF file that you type into and print for your paper organizer
3. As paper forms that you print and write on in your paper organizer
The GTD Organizer includes:
1. Notes/In
2. 2017 Calendar, in week-at-a-glance format (Mon, Tue, Wed on one page; Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun on the next page)
3. Next Actions Lists
4. Agendas Lists
5. Projects Lists
6. Project Support Pages
7. Someday/Maybe Lists
8. Focus & Direction Pages
9. Reference Pages
10. Contacts Pages
11. Extra Pages
The complete package includes:
1. GTD Organizer in an easy-to-use, editable letter size PDF, as one complete system and in segmented sections if you wish to customize which sections you use
2. GTD & Paper Organizers Setup Guide with extensive educational support about how to use your GTD Organizer
3. Instructions on how to edit the GTD Organizer PDFs, including options for printing on other paper sizes
October 26, 2016
October 24, 2016
Why GTD Matters to Your Organization
David Allen shares 3 keys to why GTD matters to your organization.
October 20, 2016
Episode #23 – GTD and The Organized Mind
Join David Allen for a fascinating, wide-ranging conversation with Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized Mind. Daniel is a professor of psychology, a cognitive scientist, a musician, an entrepreneur, and more. He brings recent cognitive research to bear on GTD, validating obectively what GTD users know subjectively — that getting things off your mind frees your mind for more creative and productive thinking. David and Daniel discuss why the brain pays attention to some things and ignores others, the limits of short-term memory versus long-term memory, and why the Mind Sweep is not just a good idea, but a critical part of dealing with our modern lives.
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October 12, 2016
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