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Member Exclusive: New GTD System

Hello GTD Connect members!

Our Products department asked me to pass this along to you:

Later today, we are publicly announcing a special, new product called the "GTD System." We wanted you to be the first to know. It includes some fantastic new content from David and the staff, as well as so...

Member Exclusive: Qualities Of Good Leadership

This is a long one but I wanted to record this on Connect so I can go back to it so please excuse the selfishness of this post- maybe others will find some value too?

I took Scott Coady's ALM Leadership course (David and Kathryn sent me) and one of the sessions we visited John Taft, a local with...

Member Exclusive: New Productivity Newsletter

Hi!

Got a quick question about the new Productivity newsletter you are offering. If you are signed up on connect or get used to get Productivity Principles newsletter, will you get the new newsletter automatically or do you need to sign up for this one too.

Has Productivity Principles been ...

Member Exclusive: Counterpoint To Parallel Project Vs. SAL (OmniFocus)

I'm an OmniFocus user for my project/task lists and an interesting discussion came up on the OmniFocus forums (click here for details) on the differences between a parallel project and a single action list (SAL). OmniFocus can create a type of action list that is designed to collect more random act...

Member Exclusive: Best Practices Series

We're in the middle of a "Best practices of GTD" series and just posted the latest on Processing for you. It's about 30 minutes.

If you missed the first one, it covered Best Practices of Collect.

Next up, of course, is Organizing!

Member Exclusive: Best Practices Of Processing

David Allen and his team discuss the processing stage of GTD. How can you get to Inbox zero? What questions do you ask to unstick something?

GTD Times: Elevating our Game

During a recent marathon of Aaron Sorkin's great short-lived series "Sports Night" (a marathon that I started by watching both seasons on DVD, which further proves my self-starting skills) I came upon an episode entitled "Moving Day."  As the whip-smart Sorkinian dialogue washed over me throughout the rest of the marathon, it got me thinking about the meaning of the term on a variety of levels.  The deduction: every day can and should be a Moving Day.

In the context of the episode the goal was

Member Exclusive: Duplicating The Mindsweep

Connect member Dave asked:
When doing your Mindsweep, do you also note the items that you know that you have already captured in your already established trusted system? For example, I know that I have an action item calendered to "speak to Sandy tomorrow regarding about Jane, the volunteer, about...

Member Exclusive: Maybe There Is Something To MindMapping

See this TED talk by Tom Wujec, a Fellow at Autodesk, the makers of design software for engineers, filmmakers, designers, about three ways the brain creates meaning.

Member Exclusive: New GTD Workflow Diagram

For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the new GTD Workflow Diagram, we just made an announcement about it on our GTD Times blog:

http://www.gtdtimes.com/2009/07/27/new-gtd-workflow-diagram/

Bottom line: it's coming next month. As always, Connect members will get a discount.