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GTD Times: Quick tip for processing your Inbox

Once you have determined your next physical action, you can either complete it in the moment, hand it off to someone else to do, or keep track of it in a way that you will be reminded of it appropriately. -David Allen (in chapter 12 of Making It All Work)

Want any easy way to remember these?  If you're following the GTD Workflow Map, these are your choices of Do, Delegate, or Defer.  Of course, don't forget about Delete, which comes when you are first deciding whether or not it's actionable. ...

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Coach and Senior Presenter Danny Bader shares the value of the public GTD classes. When is the last time you had a day to think about how you think? Click here to listen now or click here to download. (mp3, 01:46). For access to all previous podcasts, check out our complete podcast feed.

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Member Exclusive: Blackberry Curve And Ipod Touch-Overkill

I have decided to get a Blackberry Curve because of Outlook and GTD. I am wondering if getting an Ipod touch for audio books is a duplication or a selfish thing to do.

I like audio books and I am wondering if anyone cares to comment on how easy they are to use on an Ipod touch vs. an Ipod Nano.
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The greater your worldly engagements, the greater engagement w/GTD is required to disengage, to stay engaged w/gusto.

Member Exclusive: David Allen On Twitter

Just finished current Wired UK and Atlantic on planes. My idea of luxurious culture savviness.

GTD Times: When you're NOT doing a Weekly Review...

If you're not doing a Weekly Review, then you're always trying to do a Weekly Review, but never really doing it. The real reason to do it is so that 6.9 days of the week you don't have to.  -David Allen

Looking for motivation and coaching on the GTD Weekly Review?  Get the CD set. Includes Coach Meg Edwards walking you through a Guided Weekly Review.

GTD Times: Keeping the Runway Clear

David Allen refers to your day-to-day Calendar and Action choices as the "Runway."  In the Horizons of Focus model, covered in Getting Things Done and more extensively in Making It All Work, it's the ground floor:

50,000 - Purpose
40,000 - Vision
30,000 - Goals
20,000 - Responsibilities
10,000 - Projects
Runway - Calendar & Actions

We got a letter from Mike who has been reading the Getting Things Done book and shared his experience with us of what David's means by "keeping the ...

GTD Times: Getting to the bottom of your inbox

Dear David Allen: Where do you find the time to go through the hardest parts of your Inbox (I seem to have a lower layer that never gets finished -- notes from meetings that need follow up that are important but not urgent etc.)?

DA: You're trying to use your Inbox as your organizer, and that won't work. You have to make the decision about the action step for each one of those, and organize the reminder of the action (if it's longer than 2 minutes and can't be delegated) in your system. Th...

Member Exclusive: Teaching The GTD Approach To Kids

In the Up Close I just recorded with David today (will be posted in a few days), David talks about how he shared the concepts of GTD with some high school students this week. It's one of the most succinct explanations I've heard about the essence of GTD in a way that anyone could relate to--especia...