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Member Exclusive: What One Feature Would You Add To GTDconnect If You Could?

GTDConnect is an awesome site with lot's of awesome value to it. If you had full control and could do anything you wanted what one feature or benefit would you add to the GTDConnect membership package?

Member Exclusive: GTD Fitness Success Stories

Does anyone have any success stories about how GTD has helped them with there health, losing weight, getting over an injury?

Member Exclusive: Ultimate Tools

I am an individual who stays in the vortex of always wondering "are there a better set of tools out there?" I am currently using Outlook 2007 / NetCentrics Add-In ver 3.0 / Microsoft Exchange Server / Windows Mobile Phone / Phatnotes for Outlook.

I have recommitted to using the GTD system, have ...

Member Exclusive: Managing Email Webinar Just Posted

I am doing a Webinar this month on Managing Email. While email programs are unique, the GTD strategies are universally applicable. I'll give tips, tricks and examples for managing email.

Connect members can register through the link on the Webinars box on the home page of Connect.

Member Exclusive: What REALLY Has Your Attention?

A GTD game for this coming week:

What really has your attention?

Notice where your attention goes in this coming week. Do you spend more time thinking about something that it deserves? Is there anything that isn't captured anywhere in your system, but it should/could be? If your thoughts wer...

Member Exclusive: Miyamoto Musashi Quote

"In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit."
Miyamoto Musashi

Member Exclusive: Purpose/principles - What Would "on Purpose" Really Mean?

Coach's Corner: The power of the real next action

I was working with a client the other day, doing the second follow-up visit of the Workflow Coaching. We were halfway through the weekly review when he turned around to me and said, "It was the glasses that did it for me. I really got it because of the glasses." It was such a simple statement, but it packed such a punch. Here's the story.



This client is a brilliant man and has more on his plate than most people. But the piles of paper he had accumulated in his office were starting to wear him d

Coach's Corner: The Impact of Workflow Coaching for a Team

Coaching in a team context is a very powerful tool for establishing stability and renewed energy for organizations in the process of change. Today, more than ever, change can occur in an instant and command that we find solutions to complex and challenging questions. In today's economic climate, many businesses are reorganizing and restructuring, and there are often pressing needs for teams to "get their act together" at a higher level of operational effectiveness.



This last month I worked wi

Coach's Corner: Workflow Coaching in the Home

Often we start Workflow Coaching with people in their business environment and end up coaching them in their home as well. The reason is that once you have experienced a clean inner and outer environment at work, you often begin to envision what your world would be like if your life and home office could be in the same shape.



Families today face challenges that require new ways to think about and manage our lives at home. The Getting Things Done thought process is equally applicable to managin