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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 ...

Member Exclusive: Post The Purpose And Success Criteria For A Project Meeting.

Wanted to share an experience I am having managing the process of a project.

A cross functional group in my department (IT) was having a problem moving on a project. While my group (Telecom) is related to the project, I (as the director of telecom) am not really involved.

I was asked to help ...

Member Exclusive: Help Needed On Setting Up A List Manager!!

I am a fledgling GTDer and need some help on this step.

I have been an admin for my VP for 10 years now and am finding that my psychic ram isn't working anymore. We are much busier now and I have more managers that I help out in this current financial environment. I have set my performance go...

GTD Times: OmniFocus Speed Keys

Studies show that most people will be 4 times faster on the keyboard by using shortcut keys versus reaching for the the mouse and clicking their way through menus.  You don't need to know all of them, but certainly the keyboard shortcuts that represent the tasks you use the most can be a tremendous time saver.

One of our Coaches was recently working with someone on OmniFocus and passed along a great summary of all of the OmniFocus keyboard shortcuts. We also have these posted for Windows & Outl

Member Exclusive: Outlook 2007 Move Selected Mail To Folder With One Key?

Hey all I'm starting to get control of my inbox and want an easy way to get things out of my inbox. Rather than delete I'd like to move mail I process to an archive folder, however I don't see any easy way to setup a shortcut for this in Outlook 2007. From some searching I saw a reference to this ...