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Member Exclusive: Independence Day Thoughts

As we celebrate our independence day (2 days late from history but this is traditional :-) ) our town is having the annual Cherry Days event. This year there are actually cherries. Some years they have frozen, some they are later and some years like this one they are perfect. Sweet Black Bings (neve...

Member Exclusive: Spreadsheet As List Manager

I use MS Excel as my list manager, carrying my file in a pen drive that I have always with me so that I can use it at home and in the office and sometimes I print parts of lists like @errands or @ calls when I will be out and about.

I wonder if there are any other Excel freaks like myself here t...

Member Exclusive: Looking At Blackberry

I'm looking at a Blackberry, after using Palm OS handhelds since 1997. I was all set to get a Centro from AT&T. That way I would have a new PDA, on the same carrier as Kelly's iPhone. Seemed like an upgrade by downsizing from my bulkier Treo. My needs are simple, and I like the simple Palm OS li...

Member Exclusive: Outlook Webinar

We just posted registration details for a new Connect webinar I'm doing in July on Microsoft Outlook. You can register through the link on the home page of Connect.

Cheers!

Member Exclusive: Saying Goodbye

Hi everyone,

I wanted to take a moment to bid you all farewell. I am discontinuing my GTD Connect membership effective today. It's been a great two years and I count many of you as friends. It's been a pleasure and privilege to serve this community as facilitator of the GTD Virtual Study group as...

GTD Times: Is that a problem or a project?

GTD Secrets: True Confessions of a GTD Coach - Episode 4


One of the things that I have seen over the years is a lot of incomplete Project Lists. And I think some of it is because we have a tendency to have a narrow view about what a project is. Years ago, David said in a seminar, "Hey folks, you don't have problems; you have projects." And one of the things that I see is people not necessarily bringing their "problems" into their GTD system. It just doesn't really occur to them, and it was the

Podcast: Meg Edwards - Problems or Projects?

Meg describes how GTD'ers often get stuck on defining projects. She shares how defining a problem like a project can help reach a successful outcome. Click here to listen now or click here to download. (mp3, 05:16). For access to all previous podcasts, check out our complete podcast feed. <!-- -->




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Member Exclusive: Do You Have Problems Or Projects?

Coach Meg Edwards describes how to resolve problems by treating them like projects.

GTD Times: The Strategic Value of Personal Productivity

David Allen is doing a webinar event next Wednesday, July 8th, hosted by Unbound Ideas.

In this 90-minute interactive webinar, David Allen will describe the strategies, tools and specific behaviors that dramatically upgrade individual and organizational productivity. In particular, he will focus on:

The 5 stages of control and the 6 horizons of focus necessary for personal self-management
How to get immediate control of "current reality"
How to keep track of the total inventory of your commi

Member Exclusive: ICal

Since switching to a Mac I've found iCal very useful for my calendar. The ability to have color-coded calendars (aka categories) allows me to rapidly change focus on different aspects of my life or see the whole thing.

I've also started using fewer all-day events than I did during my Outlook or ...