David Allen's Blog, page 88

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...

Member Exclusive: Standing File Rack

The DavidCo version of this is still very expensive - even more so when you add on shipping to the UK and import VAT.

Has anyone in the UK found an equivalent product that's better value?

I seem to remember in the old days of vinyl LPs we have record racks that would have done the job.

Dave

Member Exclusive: 2 Dead Trees

I am not a yard work person but thanks to GTD, there are two dead trees that are no longer in my back yard and I feel freakin great about it!

I saw that the trees were dead and I wrote "Dead trees" down on an index card. A while later I threw it in my inbox. About a day later I took a look and w...

Member Exclusive: List Management Program

Hi

I have been following GTD Principles for almost a year now. I have been using paper to track projects and next actions.

I am finding that the paper is no longer meeting my needs. I am looking for advice on what people have found that work to be list managers. I have two things I am really...

GTD Times: Tools for getting your life under control

Still wrestling with really mastering GTD? The weekly review still a conceptual mystery? Still looking for the keys for getting started and making it stick? We just announced a new package, called the GTD System, that includes a wealth of resources for newbies to GTD experts.  It includes a comprehensive set of tools and learning resources for setting up your GTD system, knowing the critical success factors and getting it to stick--once and for all. You'll get 6 CD's with David and his senior c