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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 ...

Member Exclusive: The Sonic Boom Heard Around The World - June 29

In the latest audio update of UpClose, exclusively for GTD Connect members, David shares about:
- his last thorough weekly review
- the new GTD Facebook fan page
- international expansion
- the new contact manager we're now using
- Drew Carey, one of his long-term coaching clients

Drew als...

Member Exclusive: Favorite Checklists Is Now Favorite Tools

Hi GTD Connect members!

In watching the Forum traffic, it seems like a good bit of attention and conversation happens around your favorite tools. So we've expanded "Favorite Checklists" to now encompass all of your favorite gear, lists, tools and toys to help your GTD system run seamlessly. It'...

GTD Times: Taking a deeper look at control & perspective

Making It All Work, David Allen's latest book, ties together what many people were hungry for after reading Getting Things Done:  control + perspective.  In MIAW, control (5 phases of mastering your workflow) gets married to perspective (your horizons of focus)  to give an overview of the whole game.

Chris Taylor, editor for Goose Educational Media, wrote up a detailed book review of Making It All Work that we thought you may find helpful. He wrote:

We broke the review into two parts, as I felt

Member Exclusive: Daddy, Am I Good At Anything?

My daughter recently asked me this question. I posted my response here:

http://www.zonebyzone.com/2009/06/am-i-good-at-anything.html

The response concludes with us using the GTD system to define projects to move toward my daughter's vision of success.

One of the things I love about teachin...

Member Exclusive: Asking For Your Help In My 3-Day Quest

Hi Folks,

As some of you already know, in September I'll be participating in a very special event called the Breast Cancer 3-Day.

In Seattle, I'll walk 60 miles over the course of three days with thousands of other women and men. The net proceeds will support breast cancer research, education,...

Member Exclusive: Procrastination

Procrastination is not simply not doing something, it's not doing something and feeling crappy. - David Allen