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Simply GTD with Kelly: Where to catch me...

For the past 4 years, it's been an absolute pleasure for me to write for this blog. It's been a great outlet for me to hone my GTD skills, interact with the community, share my stories, and support my coaching clients and seminar participants. I am still planning on writing about GTD, in fact, I am contributing more than ever these days in the form of articles, podcasts, videos, webinars and online classes. But, I've decided to put my efforts in a few different areas than this blog.

So with tha

Member Exclusive: Know Thyself

One thing about GTD that many people, myself included, like about GTD is that it's a set of principles (beliefs) that allows for freedom about how you practice these principles. This is of value because we are unique individuals. We have different personalities. We have different experiences. We ...

Member Exclusive: Back On Track

haven't really fallen off the wagon, but I've not done a good weekly review in a couple of weeks, my tickler file was a couple of weeks behind and things were a little chaotic. I've gone a good job of getting my physical inbox to empty and keeping my email to empty, but omnifocus was becoming a litt...

GTD Times: Why is it so hard for human beings to get organized?

A GTD'er asked David Allen:

I have read Getting Things Done many times and am attending the Boston seminar.  I have a question:  Why is it so hard for human beings to get organized?  Why do the techniques you recommend require so much effort and encounter such resistance from human nature?  I'm not interested in this academically, but if there is some biological/psychological/historical aspect of human nature that makes it so difficult to organize, it might help us learn how to overcome them an

Member Exclusive: Virtual Tour

When doing a mind sweep, try walking around the house/work area with your pad and writing down ideas after they happen, then sit down somewhere quiet and retrace the tour in your head, it might bring more ideas. Another cool thing to try is drawing a sketch of your house/work area, this can really p...

Member Exclusive: Resurrecting An Old Habit

After taking some time to digest the recent podcast by Kelly and David about David's all day weekly review, I'm finally going to resurrect an old habit from my first job: Follow-up Friday. The Engineering Mgr at my first job had an informal expectation that you'd use every Friday as a day to work o...

Member Exclusive: Question About Using Two Different Systems For GTD

Greetings all - thanks for the valuable forum posts that have consumed about 4 hours over the past few days (4 hours well spent!!).

I am pretty new to GTD so I am trying to focus on getting the basic processes in place (this week is time to 'collect' my office - which is in my house). As I have ...

GTD Times: Best Practices of Processing

[image error] In this 30-minute podcast, David and his team talk about the critical "thinking" stage of GTD.  They share practical tips, personal examples and suggestions for the processing stage of mastering your workflow.  Listen now.

If you missed the previous episode in our GTD best practices series on Collect, you can catch it here.

Podcast: David Allen - Best Practices of Processing

David Allen & his team share about processing, including keys for getting to inbox zero, why things get stuck, the process for deciding and more. Click here to listen now or click here to download. (mp3, 31:33). For access to all previous podcasts, check out our complete podcast feed. <!-- -->

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Member Exclusive: Inside The Coach's Office

I put the word out to our Coaching staff for photos of their offices, tools and gear. I know Connect members love seeing real examples, and a picture is a great way to get good ideas for your own setup. The first one is from Coach Danny Bader of his home office.

Feel free to post any questions...