Getting Things Done

You may have heard of a text editor called Emacs, which has been around for a long time. This is your chance to hear how Matt has used it to create a GTD list manager. He talks about how he got into GTD, and goes into plenty of detail about the system he has developed, through many iterations, using Emacs.

You can listen to the entire conversation from December 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

You will learn that Blanka moves around quite a bit. After several other countries, she and her family have landed in the US in Sarasota, Florida. In addition to her work as a GTD trainer, Blanka has a fascinating range of interests, from organizational development to fiber art. 

You can listen to the entire conversation from October 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Join your GTD colleagues for another Office Hour. This time we discussed the management of projects that evolve as work on them progresses. How do you handle sub-projects? What to do when potentially separate and independent projects develop from the starting project? We cover these questions and more.

You can listen to the entire webinar from October 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

A perennial GTD question is, "How do I prioritize when I have so many next actions and projects?" GTD trainer and coach Paul Vahur offers a fresh perspective on that question, considering the five steps of workflow, and your commitments on all the horizons.

You can listen to the entire webinar from September 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In this Skills Lab we take a deep dive into the Areas of Focus horizon. What are typical areas, and how are they distinguished from your commitments on other horizons? We answer common questions, and explore practice scenarios. Click here for the two-page PDF with sample professional and personal Areas of Focus.

You can listen to the entire webinar from August 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In this GTD office hour, we discussed a variety of topics. We gave special attention to structure. How much do you need to get your projects and actions off your mind? How much becomes too much so that you find your system takes too much effort to maintain? It's entirely individual, and may change for you as your areas of focus change.

You can listen to the entire webinar from July 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In this new Skills Lab webinar we take a deep dive into the topic of project planning. How much and what kinds of planning do you need to do for different types of projects? With quizzes, exercises, and practice scenarios, this is a valuable opportunity to fine-tune your GTD practice.

You can listen to the entire webinar from July 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

You already know Bill Myers from his many posts in the forum, where he has been adding value -- and humor! -- for many years. Get to know him even more in this Slice of GTD Life interview. Bill answers the usual questions about how he got started with GTD, and the variety of tools he has tried. He also goes into helpful detail on how his thinking about and approach to GTD have changed over the years.

You can listen to the entire conversation from September 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

As the CEO of Arkus, Inc., Jason Atwood is the epitome of a leader who has embedded GTD in his company culture. Beyond the basics of productivity, he educates employees on how to communicate effectively, including advice on when to change the channel to a more suitable means of communication. His company is built on trust, with clear expectations and metrics, rather than tracking where and for how long someone sits at a desk or is in front of a webcam. He emphasizes that in addition to the accountability of GTD, there is a larger culture of accountability that supports all in doing their best work.

You can listen to the entire conversation from July 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Caroline Clarke's GTD journey goes back to when Getting Things Done was first published. She applied the methodology in her previous career in international banking, and still applies it in her new career as an illustrator and author. She shows us her intentionally designed home office/studio, with spaces for various kinds of work. She also talks in detail about how she adapts GTD to her very creative work.

You can listen to the entire conversation from May 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In this Skills Lab recording, we took a deep dive into the Organize step in the GTD workflow. With quizzes, exercises, and practice scenarios, this is a valuable opportunity to fine-tune your GTD practice.

You can listen to the entire webinar from June 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In this new Skills Lab webinar we took a deep dive into the Clarify step in the GTD workflow. With quizzes, exercises, and practice scenarios, this is a valuable opportunity to fine-tune your GTD practice. Improving your skill on the Clarify step is one of the best ways to make your reviews easier, and make your choices easier when it's time to engage with your predefined work. You will benefit if you have real-time access to your calendar, Projects and Next Actions lists.

You can listen to the entire webinar from April 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In our most recent Skills Lab webinar we took a deep dive into the Capture step in the GTD workflow. We discussed what makes a leakproof capture tool. We also distinguished between capturing as a behavior and the tools we use to capture. With quizzes, exercises, and practice scenarios, this will be a valuable opportunity to fine-tune your GTD practice.

You can listen to the entire webinar from February 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen talks about the difference between an incomplete system and a complete system, one which you can completely trust.

We had another thought-provoking discussion during our Office Hour. Topics included Project and Someday/Maybe Lists, clear lines between reference and actionable items, and much more.

You can listen to the entire webinar from February 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In this new Skills Lab recording we took a deep dive into the causes of procrastination, and the cures. With quizzes, exercises, and practice scenarios, this is a valuable opportunity to fine-tune your GTD practice.

You can listen to the entire webinar from January 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In this Skills Lab, we take a deep dive into the Reflect step in the GTD workflow. With quizzes, exercises, and practice scenarios, this will be a valuable opportunity to fine-tune your GTD practice.

You can listen to the entire webinar from September 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Put your GTD skills to the test in this new Skills Lab webinar. We focused on the basics of the Engage step, including how you spend your time and choosing what to do. Through a set of fun quizzes, practice scenarios, and lively group discussions, this was a valuable opportunity to fine-tune GTD practice.

You can listen to the entire webinar from September 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

This was the first of several planned GTD Skills Lab webinars. In this installment, we focus on the fundamentals of projects and next actions. Through a set of fun quizzes, engaging practice scenarios, and lively group discussions, this is a valuable opportunity to fine-tune your GTD practice.

You can listen to the entire webinar from September 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In this recording, we talk about the nature of Someday/Maybe items, and how the Someday/Maybe list is closely related to the Projects list.

You can listen to the entire webinar from June 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

GTD trainers Paul Vahur and William Elliott talked about how various personality traits may affect GTD practice.

You can listen to the entire webinar from January 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

For many, the workplace is broken. We may not realize it, but our tools can shape us in unproductive ways, and we've become conditioned to accept this as normal. In this recording, David Allen and John Forrister talk With Eric Mack about his 8 Practices of Intentionally Productive Work, which provide a framework to help you shift your mindset and uplevel your work.

To help people better understand the relationship between their knowledge, methods, and tools, Eric's doing a survey on workstyles and key frustrations. We encourage the GTD community to participate. We did, and found it helpful to us in understanding how we work, what we can do to improve, and more.

Key Frustrations and Work Styles Survey

Eric Mack Company

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You can listen to the entire conversation from April 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen has a wide-ranging talk with Kevin Kelly about many aspects of technology. Kevin's new book, Excellent Advice for Living, will be available in May. They discuss artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and more. Kevin has a long association with technology and the internet, including as a co-founder of WIRED magazine. He still writes about the culture of technology.

You can listen to the entire conversation from March 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Rene Lie started his career as a musician, and has branched out in surprising ways. From his home in Norway, he describes how he started with GTD, the tools he has used, and his decision to become a GTD trainer. He has even found ways to do the seemingly impossible -- get family and colleagues to do GTD, or at least parts of it. He's also still an active musician.

You can listen to the entire conversation from April 2023 at GTD Connect®.

Interested in personalized one-on-one coaching? Check out GTD Focus's channel to learn more: https://bit.ly/3UCL6CT  

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Today's episode is with Morten and Lars from Vital Learning. Listen in as they discuss the GTD Summer Camp in Denmark, the new book Getting Things Done with Others, and GTD Connect membership.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen encourages us to enjoy the journey, even when projects take longer than anticipated.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

We have a new Slice of GTD Life recording with Renese King. She is a longtime GTD practitioner who has tried multiple paper and digital solutions for her GTD system. She describes how she heard about GTD, and her current combination of digital and paper tools. Renese balances a busy life that includes her job at Berklee College of Music, and her other career as a singer, composer, and arranger. For just one of many examples, here she is singing in a Boston Pops Salute to our Heroes.

You can listen to the entire conversation from January 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

This is a special Slice of GTD Life, because it's with two people instead of one, and because they talk about how their GTD practice is involved with running the company Sauna Space. Brian Richards and Christal Spurgeon discuss the tools they use for GTD, how their employees learn and use GTD, and how GTD fits with the self-managing approach the company runs on.

You can listen to the entire conversation from October 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen talks with psychologist Mark Tigchelaar about how the brain deals with distractions, and how long it takes to recover from distractions. Mark points out that dopamine inflation leads to our seeking out new stimuli. His advice: "Minimize the number of switches that you make during the day, without missing what's important."

You can listen to the entire conversation from October 2022 at GTD Connect®.

David Allen talks with GTD trainer Justin Hale about his journey with GTD. Justin notes that the journey includes cultivating self-awareness about our habits. He emphasizes the importance of deliberate practice to change behaviors. More than a set of hacks, he considers GTD to be a complete system.

You can listen to the entire conversation from October 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Becky DeWaters gives us a detailed look into her OmniFocus system. She also shares what she has learned about the relationships between goals, areas of focus, projects, and next actions. She mentions plenty of illustrative examples, and weaves helpful metaphors into the discussion.

You can listen to the entire conversation from August 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Please join David Allen as he talks with Steve Beimel about how GTD artfully ties in with revitalizing traditional Japanese master crafts.

You can listen to the entire conversation from July 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Josh Mitchell has a longtime interest in paper planners. In this recording, he shares past and current versions of paper planners, including the type that David Allen used until the mid-1990s.

In addition to talking about several planners, Josh shares about pens, mechanical pencils, and highlighters that go with his system.

You can listen to the entire conversation from March 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In another of their occasional chats, David Allen is interviewed by Dave Edwards. They explore the art of balancing predefined work that you may have told yourself is important for today, with work that shows up. They discuss the importance of having protocols and agreements for communication on your team, including expected response times. Then they consider the different types of notes you might take in meetings. That leads to a perennial question: How to get others to do GTD? David's answer is that happens when someone exemplifies outcome and action thinking.

You can listen to the entire conversation from March 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Having a good set of tools and being clear how you want to use them are keys to an effective GTD practice. Join us for a conversation about the rules for your tools, including:

• Identifying roadblocks that lead to being repelled by your tools
• What to consider when choosing the tools for GTD
• Defining the features and functions that will impact your productivity
• Creating clear guidelines with your team about which tool for which purpose

You can listen to, or watch this entire conversation from October 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In this brief recording, David Allen discusses how he answers the question he is often asked. "How do I set priorities?"

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Jukka Backman is a GTD trainer and coach, as well as the managing director for GTD in Finland. In this recording, he shares about the multifaceted value of writing things down. Jukka says, "There is definite power in writing things down. When externalized (from the mind) our perception of the things that took our attention, changes." He talks about the specifics of how to use a worry list, how to start or refine your use of the Mind Sweep, harnessing the power of your self-talk, and his use of the Intention Journal.

You can listen to the entire conversation from June 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In another installment of their occasional chats, David and Dave talk about travel productivity, and paper versus digital. They also weave in discussion of the psychology and philosophy of GTD.

You can listen to the entire conversation from March 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In another David Allen and Dave Edwards talk, David starts by asking Dave about his time at NPR and the current state of journalism. Then they move into a brief discussion of managing versus leading.

Moving on to GTD, Dave asks David whether he does a larger than usual review at the beginning of the year, and David replies about what times of year and events in life prompt what kinds of reviewing. Dave says that moving every two years is a good way to limit how much stuff you keep. David jokes that moving onto a sailboat is a great way to decide which stuff you want to keep. (David did in fact live on a sailboat years ago.)

They consider what types of reference materials get filed as paper or digital files, and how much reference material is too much. The answer is have as much as you want, as long as you don't have attention on whether there's still some action to take on anything in reference.

They talk about having the freedom to delete tasks from your lists, or move them to Someday/Maybe.

Finally, Dave asks David a question about how many next actions to specify for a project.

You can listen to the entire conversation from February 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen talks with Jerry Michalski, for a look inside Jerry's brain, as documented by his extensive use of TheBrain. Over the years you may have heard David talk about his use of TheBrain. Jerry is one of the earliest adopters, and has tracked an astounding number of ideas and their interconnections. By using TheBrain, Jerry says it shifts him from system 1 thinking (fast) to system 2 thinking (slow). He describes the need for a fundamental shift from thinking of ourselves as consumers to thinking of ourselves as citizens. He also talks about the importance of designing systems that start from trust, which get better results that cost less and have terrific side effects, like rebuilding community and releasing our inherent genius.

You can listen to the entire conversation from February 2022 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Marcus Ramtohul is a musician, actor, model, husband, father, and . . . a GTD trainer! You'll hear him describe his move from a paper-based system to digital, as his life and responsibilities grew more complex in the last ten years. His creativity and humor shine through as he describes encouraging family and colleagues to adopt any of the GTD best practices. He talks about the subtlety of correctly defining next actions, assigning contexts, his customized contexts, and much more.

You can listen to the entire conversation from December 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen, Eric Mack, and John Forrister continue their discussion about their software journey, from early years to their current use of the Microsoft 365 suite of tools. If you haven't heard the first part, you may want to watch or listen to that first, but it's not required.

In this recording, they talk about the evolution of eProductivity and how much of its functionality is available in the Microsoft tools. Beyond that, it's a wide-ranging discussion of how to think about productivity, and how getting organized is an ongoing process, not a one-time destination. And of course there are some software details, such as how David is tracking Waiting For items.

You can listen to the entire conversation from December 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Melissa Garner has a big job as the Director of IT Governance, Policy & Strategy at the Oregon Department of Education. She also has a busy family life and makes time for her creative pursuits. In this interview, she talks about her longtime enthusiasm for GTD, and how she supports her staff to be their best. One of the highlights is her detailed walk-through of her GTD system in OneNote.

You can listen to the entire conversation from November 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen, Eric Mack, and John Forrister discuss their software journey, from early years to their current use of the Microsoft 365 suite of tools. A consistent theme is that it's not about the tool, but about bringing a productive mindset and habits to any tool. They discuss how the tools shape our behavior, and may or may not promote good GTD habits. The story starts in the mid-1990s with Lotus Notes. They talk about why Notes, and also why Microsoft 365 now. There are interesting tangents into groupware, CRMs, and instant messaging.

Be sure to listen after David hops off, as Eric and John continue discussing for another few minutes, and invite your input on future topics.

You can listen to the entire conversation from November 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In another chat with David Allen, Dave Edwards asks about the Clarify and Organize steps. But they also veer off the agenda to talk about what goes on the calendar and why, the Someday/Maybe list, and feeling good about what you choose to do in any moment.

You can listen to the entire conversation from November 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In another chat with David Allen, Dave Edwards asks about the Capture step. David explains why he changed the first step in the GTD workflow from collect to capture. They also discuss the change in mental clarity and space that comes from getting everything off your mind, and deciding next actions on each thing.

You can listen to the entire conversation from October 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

You may already be familiar with Peter Byrom from his insightful participation in the GTD forums. Now you'll have a chance to hear him describe the arc of his GTD journey. He talks in detail about the digital tools he has used, including Things, Todoist, and Outlook. Peter also reflects on his recent experience with the more subtle relationship between next actions and projects, and the Purpose and Principles horizon. At one point he refers to the GTD story that we posted in written form in 2019, and you can read that by clicking here. After the interview, Peter helpfully recorded a six-minute video about his Todoist setup. Click here for that video.

You can listen to the entire conversation from August 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In another chat with David Allen, Dave Edwards asks about the Mind Sweep. How often to do it? What to do with the results? David replies and also explores what happens when a team or a couple does a Mind Sweep.

Later they discuss how to clarify and organize what has shown up in the Mind Sweep.

Finally, Dave asks David what he's been reading lately, and we get a look at David's bookshelf.

You can listen to the entire conversation from June 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen, Ana Maria Gonzalez, and John Forrister talk about various angles on productively working from home. They cover communication with other remote colleagues, time and space boundaries, differences between the home and office environments, and more.

In the recording, David mentions Nicolas von Rosty's experience working from home. You can listen here.

David also mentioned using email and the in-tray, even with family members who are nearby. He wrote about that in one of his essays back in 1998. If you'd like to read the original (a less-than-two-minute action), we have just posted it here.

You can listen to the entire conversation from March 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith discusses how daily questions and especially active questions can be used to increase individual effectiveness and build employee engagement. Dr. Goldsmith is the world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior.

You can listen to the entire GTD Summit from February 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Mirabai Weismehl Rosenfeld is the Concertmaster of the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra. David talks with her about her professional journey, and how she heard about GTD. Mirabai also shares about how GTD supports her creative expression. You will also hear delightful surprises at the beginning and end of the recording.

You can listen to the conversation from June 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen has an engaging dialog with Oliver Burkeman, the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking.

You can listen to the rest of this conversation from April 2019 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Alba Leal is a GTD Trainer in training in Mexico City. She has a fascinating background, including journalism, corporate work in Silicon Valley, and a new degree in art therapy. She is currently working on a doctorate in Organizational Psychology. As usual, we talk about how she got into GTD, and what tools she uses. After that she goes into more detail on her journey, and the changes she plans to inspire in organization cultures.

You can listen to the entire 2 hour webinar from April 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

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Please join us for a working session designed to optimize your system so that you can trust your priority decisions on a moment-to-moment basis. This webinar involves the practices for achieving and maintaining a longer-horizon experience of control and focus, of life and work. After completing this session you will be able to better understand the value of evaluating your system and adapting it to optimize its usefulness. Presented by Ana Maria Gonzalez and Robert Peake. And David Allen makes a surprise appearance at the end.

You can listen to the entire webinar from April 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

This is a webinar with Suzanne Strisik, Ph.D., a psychologist and longtime GTD enthusiast. We'll be looking at dreaded next actions and how they can trigger the same anxiety as the thought of an encounter with a dangerous animal. If you've been confounded by a project or a task that lingers on one of your lists, then this webinar is for you. Suzanne will guide us in understanding the dread in the task and how it relates to something deeply meaningful to us. From there, we'll make a pathway back to the flow of our good work.

You can listen to the entire webinar from October 2019 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Join Ana Maria Gonzalez and Marian Bateman on this webinar to learn how valuable affirmations are as a tool for higher horizon visualization. They present specific keys for creating positive affirmations. They also discuss how to convert irrational beliefs into useful affirmations. And they show several of David Allen's own affirmations about his GTD practice.

You can listen to the entire conversation from January 2019 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Dave Edwards had another opportunity to ask David Allen about a variety of GTD topics. They begin with the Someday/Maybe list, and how to leverage that to improve your flow of creative ideas. Dave asks about prioritizing. David says it comes down to trusting your choices, and that's only possible when you have an externalized system for tracking your commitments. David also mentions that implementing GTD requires us to train cognitive muscles in ways that we were not taught in school. After they have officially closed the interview, David shows Dave his new reMarkable paper tablet, so of course we included that as a coda.

You can listen to the entire conversation from February 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

In November 2020 we posted an interview that Dave Edwards did with David Allen. They had more to talk about, so Dave has done this follow-up interview with David. They talk about changes in the work environment in the last year, as more people are working from home. Their discussion also covers how work contexts may have changed, and ways to be productive outside the traditional boundaries of 9-5 and an office with a commute. Dave writes about productivity, leadership, and management issues at DaveEdwardsMedia.com.

You can listen to the entire conversation from January 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Our GTD master trainer in Brunei, Rhymin Mohamed, has a fascinating talk with psychologist Paul Englert, who is based in Singapore. They talk about GTD's intersections with career counseling, psychology, and cognitive behavioral therapy.

You can listen to the entire conversation from January 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen has a fascinating talk with Brandon Hensinger, Founder and CEO of Avrio Genetics. Brandon has started various companies, from rock climbing to pharmaceuticals. He has a passion for taking startups or small companies and growing them fast. Along the way, GTD has been a key to managing the increasing complexity and responsibility in his life. He says most people don't have much of a system to keep themselves organized, other than their email inbox. For his new employees, he recommends that they read Getting Things Done. He also has them start with a list of projects and items they are waiting for. This allows them to have more productive meetings with colleagues, right from the start. His advice for sharing GTD with others? Don't just give advice. Show them. Give them a demonstration. You can find out much more about Brandon on his website. Also, check out Brandon interviewing David.

You can listen to the entire conversation from November 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Rather than asking about the nuts and bolts of the GTD methodology, Dave asks David about his journey developing GTD, his creative pursuits, and what he's working on at present.

You can listen to the entire conversation from November 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen has a fascinating talk with Brandon Hensinger, Founder and CEO of Avrio Genetics. Brandon has started various companies, from rock climbing to pharmaceuticals. He has a passion for taking startups or small companies and growing them fast. Along the way, GTD has been a key to managing the increasing complexity and responsibility in his life. He says most people don't have much of a system to keep themselves organized, other than their email inbox. For his new employees, he recommends that they read Getting Things Done. He also has them start with a list of projects and items they are waiting for. This allows them to have more productive meetings with colleagues, right from the start. His advice for sharing GTD with others? Don't just give advice. Show them. Give them a demonstration. You can find out much more about Brandon on his website. Also, check out Brandon interviewing David.

You can listen to the entire conversation from November 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Learn how to get the most out of Microsoft® OneNote® for managing your projects and reference. This webinar will cover:

• Understanding the key features and functions
• Using OneNote to manage projects (individual or shared)
• Integrating OneNote with Outlook Tasks, Email, and Calendar

Whether you're new to OneNote or more experienced and want to dive deeper, you'll learn helpful tips, tricks, and strategies to get the most out of it for your workflow.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David describes Greg Shepard as a lifelong learner on steroids. When you hear Greg talk about all that he has done, and still plans to do, you'll understand how that description fits. He has a history of taking on a variety of big challenges, because he believes that, "The bigger the problem the better the opportunity." Other people have bought more than one copy of Getting Things Done, but you'll find that Greg had an unusual reason for doing that. One of his current interests is altruistic capitalism, the idea that businesses should have concern for doing good beyond making a profit. You'll be inspired by his dedication to making the world a better place. 

You can listen to the entire conversation from October 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen has a wide-ranging talk with Kevin Kelly about many aspects of technology. Kevin's new book, Excellent Advice for Living, will be available in May. They discuss artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and more. Kevin has a long association with technology and the internet, including as a co-founder of WIRED magazine. He still writes about the culture of technology.

You can listen to the entire conversation from March 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Join David Allen for a conversation with Roy Whitten and Scott Roy. Their just-published book is Decision Intelligence Selling. It's not just for those in sales, but for anyone who realizes that persuading and motivating others is part of life. Of the book, David says, "Whether you're in sales or simply in life, this is a must-read. Roy and Scott have written a new manual for sales training ... a page-turner for us all in leveraging our relationships to everyone's advantage." You can learn more about the book and their work on the Whitten and Roy Partnership website.

You can listen to the entire conversation from September 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Sebastian Feiler is a GTD enthusiast who is based in Germany. By profession he is a lawyer, and he thinks that lawyers in general would greatly benefit from applying the GTD methodology.

Because Sebastian finds value in sharing about GTD with the global GTD community, he is an enthusiastic participant in our forums. (You would know him there as Ger80C.) He also attended the 2019 GTD Summit, and has stayed in communication with others he met there.

You will get to hear him discuss his use of paper and digital tools, his two systems for tracking work and personal commitments, and his approach to the GTD Weekly Review.

You can listen to the entire conversation from August 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Creator of the second-best productivity tool for GTD, Eric Mack is grounded in GTD and knowledge management. David Allen and John Forrister recently talked with Eric about his five principles of productivity software design, in the hope that it might inspire future designers to incorporate some of these principles into their applications.

Eric is also doing a survey on workstyles and key frustrations. We encourage the GTD community to take his survey. We did, and found it helpful to us in understanding how we work, what we can do to improve, and more.

Key Frustrations and Work Styles Survey

For a limited time, Eric is offering GTD Connect members a complimentary call to early survey respondents to discuss his recommendations.

Eric Mack Company

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Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen has reconnected with Kevin Wilde, for a discussion about learning, leadership, and coachability. Kevin describes how he heard about GTD, and his success with making it a part of the culture at General Mills. His mission in the last few years has been to dive deeper into the science and practical application of leadership coachability. He has found that leaders who plateau below their potential have one thing in common: They stop seeking feedback so they can improve. You can find out more about Kevin's current work on on the coachability of leaders on his website, The Coachable Leader. And you can listen to David's 2007 conversation with Kevin, during his time as Chief Learning Officer for General Mills.

You can listen to the entire conversation from July 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen interviewed Daniel Levitin several years ago after the publication of The Organized Mind. In this interview, David talks with Daniel about his new book, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives. They begin by discussing the neuroscientific basis for GTD. Then Daniel explains that there are two principles from GTD that are crucial for successful aging. They are 1) externalizing your memory, and 2) living conscientiously. He says that when you become more conscientious, you are rewiring your brain in beneficial ways. They also talk about how learning new things is helpful for your brain. You can find out more about Daniel on his website. He is also on several social media channels. Instagram Twitter Facebook

You can listen to the entire conversation from July 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Richard Medcalf consults with C-level executives about leadership and strategy. The company he founded is Xquadrant. In this interview, he discusses how he learned about GTD, and his tools and practices. He also introduces thought-provoking principles and questions for leaders. He created a GTD-specific version of his Checklist for Challenging Times.

You can listen to the entire conversation from June 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Josiah Ronco is a touring guitar technician who also has two other careers, repairing guitars and managing real estate. He uses OmniFocus as a list manager, Evernote for reference, and the Mac OS calendar for managing date-specific and time-specific information. His advice for those new to GTD? Read and reread Getting Things Done, and do the weekly review. We range around various GTD topics, and you'll also get to meet his dog. Near the end of the interview he goes into fascinating detail on the logistics of touring with the band. If you've ever wondered how a band can do four shows in four cities on four consecutive days, you're about to find out.

You can listen to the entire conversation from May 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Tamara McLendon is the personification of a high achiever who adopts GTD to achieve even more. In this interview, she describes her journey from working for others to growing her own business. Along the way, she began implementing GTD, and has gone on to become a certified trainer. You'll hear her describe her own system and tools. She also goes into detail about how she trains and supports all of her employees in a culture of accountability and professional development. Tamara is the president of LongLeaf System and Network Specialists, a nationwide managed IT services provider.

You can listen to the entire conversation from March 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

As you listen to David's interview with Dan Greenleaf, you'll hear a theme of service in his present and past work. He is currently the CEO of Providence Service Corporation, following work in several other large healthcare services companies. Prior to his business career, he was a captain and navigator in the US Air Force. You'll hear the pilot training in his "plan the flight, then fly the plan" approach to projects. Dan notes that as life has gotten more complex, GTD is the best tool for allowing him to be present with other people.

Memorable quote: "If you want to scale your time, talent, and treasures, GTD is the way to go."

You can read more about Dan's business background on his LinkedIn profile.

You can listen to the entire conversation from January 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Part 6 of many – David Allen and his senior staff share the GTD best practices and models for seamlessly managing your projects.

There are bonus materials that include a rich set of PDF handouts and the GTD Live recording of David leading you through the Natural Planning Model®. To get the PDFs and the complete 5 hours of audio, please visit the GTD® Store.

Part 5 of many - David Allen and his senior staff share the GTD® best practices and models for seamlessly managing your projects.

There are bonus materials that include a rich set of PDF handouts and the GTD Live recording of David leading you through the Natural Planning Model®. To get the PDFs and the complete 5 hours of audio, please visit the GTD® Store.

We have a delightful Slice of GTD Life interview for you, with Jim Small. He's a professor of pathology at Rocky Vista University, and self-confessed "science nerd." In addition to his background in medicine, he has studied computer programming, which he credits with thinking sequentially in a way that works well with GTD. His use of list management software goes way back to Palm OS and Palm Desktop, as well as Outlook, Word, Google docs, and Evernote. He has set up list management systems from simple to complex. (Hint: He says simple is better.) He speaks of the underappreciated value of the Waiting For list, and encourages those new to GTD to acknowledge themselves. His intelligence and humor shine through all the way, especially when he describes why he calls his GTD system Tembo.

You can listen to the entire conversation from November 2019 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Bruce Fetzer took a productivity training with David Allen in the 1980s. Since then he has been applying what he learned. His work with the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust has been his major focus in the last few years. The mission of the trust is to advance integrated, relational views of reality through exploring scientific frontiers and universal spiritual practices. David Allen engages Bruce in a discussion of the role of business in doing good work through meta-science, or the study of the scientific method. They also explore how to integrate inner life with outer action.

There is a free biography of John E. Fetzer available from the Fetzer Trust site.

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You can listen to the entire conversation from October 2019 at GTD Connect®.

This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Join us for a discussion of how two educators apply the GTD methodology. Erik Johnson teaches high school in Chicago, and David Drake is a professor of microbiology at the University of Iowa. They both have a passion for teaching, and have adapted GTD make their busy profession easier to manage. You'll hear them talk about their areas of focus, projects, and daily routines around email, meetings, and teaching. They also consider how educators can adapt context-based lists to their environment. As a bonus, they both describe what tools they use and why.

You can listen to the entire conversation from August 2019 at GTD Connect®.

This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

At the GTD Summit, David Allen briefly shared a vision of the ultimate GTD app which consists of 19 pages of hand-drawn drafts of the screens he would want to use. To expand on that topic, we recorded David talking with Eric Mack about the past, present, and future of GTD software. It's a wide-ranging discussion with stories that will inform, entertain, and maybe even surprise you. It's audio only, but be sure to download the PDF of David's screen drawings as well.

You can listen to the entire conversation from July 2019 at GTD Connect®.

This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Kevin Kelly calls himself a "packager of ideas" and a "predictor of the present." Both of those are in evidence as Kevin talks with David about range of ideas.

Kevin is a co-founder of Wired magazine, where his title is Senior Maverick. His most recent book is called The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, which David calls a must-read.

His website has lots more interesting information about who he is and what he does.

You can listen to the entire conversation from October 2016 at GTD Connect®.

This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

With a PhD in sleep science, Dan Pardi has plenty to say about the relationship between sleep and productivity. In this wide-ranging interview, David Allen talks with Dan about how sleep, rest, and mental acuity affect productivity.

Dan's approach is that health is about organizing yourself, effectively managing the project of your body. He's a fan of working from lists, in order to match mental energy to the type of task. In various places during this interview, he talks about his tools, as well as tips for improving productivity and performance.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Dr. Keri Hobert has worked for several community health organizations, and is currently with the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless in Denver. Her GTD journey began around 2012 with a search for a list manager. She has tried Things, Nirvana, Outlook, and now uses OmniFocus for her lists. In addition to hearing her describe her own system, you?ll find that she is dedicated to sharing about GTD with her colleagues. Beyond describing the benefits of GTD, she provides her staff with structured support to learn and apply the principles.

You can listen to the entire conversation from February 2019 at GTD Connect®.

Part 5 of 5 – Over 2½ hours of expert coaching advice to support you in this key GTD practice. Features David Allen and his senior coaching team.

Topics covered include:

– Coaching on what to do to get clear, current & creative – Advice on the common issues and challenges they see in their coaching – Tips on making the Review phase a habit – Customizing the Review to work for you – A Guided Weekly Review to give you a hands on experience in doing one yourself

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD Store

Part 4 of 5 – Over 2½ hours of expert coaching advice to support you in this key GTD® practice. Features David Allen and his senior coaching team.

Topics covered include:

– Coaching on what to do to get clear, current & creative – Advice on the common issues and challenges they see in their coaching – Tips on making the Review phase a habit – Customizing the Review to work for you – A Guided Weekly Review to give you a hands on experience in doing one yourself

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Andy Hickman is a theologian who came up with fascinating intersections among David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology and the philosophies of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. In particular, he describes ways that the 5 steps of GTD align with Aquinas's 12 distinct actions of intellect and will.

You can listen to the entire conversation from January 2019 at GTD Connect®.

Andy Hickman is a theologian who came up with fascinating intersections among David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology and the philosophies of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. In particular, he describes ways that the 5 steps of GTD align with Aquinas's 12 distinct actions of intellect and will.

You can listen to the entire conversation from January 2019 at GTD Connect®.

Part 2 of 3 – David Allen talks with GTD® trainer Justin Hale about his journey with GTD®. Justin notes that the journey includes cultivating self-awareness about our habits. He emphasizes the importance of deliberate practice to change behaviors. More than a set of hacks, he considers GTD® to be a complete system.

Justin is a trainer with Crucial Learning, as well as the host of the One Productive Minute video series.

Just Announced: A refreshed GTD® Course is now available!

You can watch this entire conversation with David and Justin on GTD Connect®.

Part 18 of 18 – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 17 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

David Allen talks about the value he gets, and that you can get, by taking a few minutes for reflection at the end of the day.

Part 1 of 3 - David Allen talks with GTD® trainer Justin Hale about his journey with GTD®. Justin notes that the journey includes cultivating self-awareness about our habits. He emphasizes the importance of deliberate practice to change behaviors. More than a set of hacks, he considers GTD® to be a complete system.

Justin is a trainer with Crucial Learning, as well as the host of the One Productive Minute video series.

Just Announced: A refreshed GTD® Course is now available!

You can watch this entire conversation with David and Justin on GTD Connect®.

(Originally published in October of 2022 on GTD Connect®)

Part 16 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Where you work affects how you work. Listen as David Allen talks with Sharad Mathur, the founder of Lewis Office, about how environmental design affects our productivity.

To enhance productivity and provide good ergonomics, Sharad believes that an office needs to be flexible. It should also be easy to set up, so he designs furniture that can be assembled quickly, without tools.

GTD quote: "It helps in having a better life!"

You can find Sharad on LinkedIn. And you can learn more about his innovative approach to office design at Lewis Office.

In this series, David Allen, Meg Edwards, and Marian Bateman take you through how to keep the system going by examining the Review and Do phases of GTD®. Learn how to review your system, including what to review when and the different horizons of focus, so you can trust the choices you are making about what to do. Also includes an in-depth walk through of the Weekly Review, with Coach Meg Edwards sharing her recommendations on how to productively spend an hour getting clear and current.

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

In this series, David Allen, Meg Edwards, and Marian Bateman take you through how to keep the system going by examining the Review and Do phases of GTD®. Learn how to review your system, including what to review when and the different horizons of focus, so you can trust the choices you are making about what to do. Also includes an in-depth walk through of the Weekly Review, with Coach Meg Edwards sharing her recommendations on how to productively spend an hour getting clear and current.

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Critical Success Factors In this series, David Allen, Meg Edwards, and Marian Bateman take you through how to keep the system going by examining the Review and Do phases of GTD®. Learn how to review your system, including what to review when and the different horizons of focus, so you can trust the choices you are making about what to do. Also includes an in-depth walk through of the Weekly Review, with Coach Meg Edwards sharing her recommendations on how to productively spend an hour getting clear and current.

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

David talks about keeping track of balances due, and the importance of having a complete inventory of your projects and next actions in order to say yes or no to new requests.

Jennifer Ladd-Lively demonstrates why "the better you get, the better you'd better get." As her responsibilities have increased, she has modified her system from what she calls the brute force method, to a combination of digital and paper that handles everything smoothly.

Jennifer says the two-minute rule made a big difference in her productivity, as did the Weekly Review, which is now part of her routine. Others ask her how she accomplishes so much with ease, so it's no surprise that her example inspires those around her.

David Allen talks about the three Cs of effective systems -- Consistent, Current, and Context-driven.

Part 3 of 3 – 3 Days to Clarity In this 3 MP3 audio series, David Allen explains how to get control of all the open loops in your life that are tugging on your psyche, draining your energy and standing in the way of you accomplishing more important things you want. This series dives deeply into discussing the Collect, Process, and Organize phases of GTD® to lay the foundation for successful implementation.

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 2 of 3 – 3 Days to Clarity In this 3 MP3 audio series, David Allen explains how to get control of all the open loops in your life that are tugging on your psyche, draining your energy and standing in the way of you accomplishing more important things you want. This series dives deeply into discussing the Collect, Process, and Organize phases of GTD® to lay the foundation for successful implementation.

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 1 of 3 - 3 Days to Clarity In this 3 MP3 audio series, David Allen explains how to get control of all the open loops in your life that are tugging on your psyche, draining your energy and standing in the way of you accomplishing more important things you want. This series dives deeply into discussing the Collect, Process, and Organize phases of GTD to lay the foundation for successful implementation.

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Tim Howes manages to have a sense of humor, and be an involved, caring parent, even while he juggles concurrent careers in higher education, real estate renovation, and business acquisition. As you listen, you'll find out why the Natural Planning Model is one of his favorite GTD tools. In this interview, he describes how his system has evolved from paper to digital, and the software he has tried. He also tells us how he shares GTD with grad students and his own family.

(Originally published in November of 2018 on GTD Connect®)

Part 15 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 14 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 13 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Jason Atwood has built GTD into his company from the start. Listen as he shares with David Allen about starting Arkus, a Salesforce consulting firm, well after his own GTD practice was on a solid foundation. Beyond encouraging his employees to adopt GTD, he provides them with ongoing tools and support. During the onboarding period, he even meets with new employees to answer questions and refine their GTD implementation.

Jason is also inspiring the next generation, starting with his daughter, who has read Getting Things Done for Teens and begun putting it into practice.

His Twitter handle is @jasonmatwood (twitter.com/jasonmatwood), where he tweets about Salesforce, of course, and also about which music and coffee drink is along for his weekly review.

Part 3 of 5 - Over 2½ hours of expert coaching advice to support you in this key GTD® practice. Features David Allen and his senior coaching team.

Topics covered include:

- Coaching on what to do to get clear, current & creative - Advice on the common issues and challenges they see in their coaching - Tips on making the Review phase a habit - Customizing the Review to work for you - A Guided Weekly Review to give you a hands on experience in doing one yourself

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Join David Allen for a wide-ranging talk with Paul Akers. You'll learn that when Paul refers to himself as a carpenter, it's quite an understatement. He's a master woodworker (watch the video version to fully appreciate this), who also founded FastCap, a product development company specializing in woodworking tools and hardware for the professional builder.

His interest in lean manufacturing led him to apply those principles to other areas, including health. His next book will be called Lean Life.

You can contact him through his website, paulakers.net.

(Originally published in August of 2018 on GTD Connect®)

Part 2 of 5 – Over 2½ hours of expert coaching advice to support you in this key GTD® practice. Features David Allen and his senior coaching team.

Topics covered include:

– Coaching on what to do to get clear, current & creative – Advice on the common issues and challenges they see in their coaching – Tips on making the Review phase a habit – Customizing the Review to work for you – A Guided Weekly Review to give you a hands on experience in doing one yourself

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 1 of 5 - Over 2½ hours of expert coaching advice to support you in this key GTD® practice. Features David Allen and his senior coaching team.

Topics covered include: - Coaching on what to do to get clear, current & creative - Advice on the common issues and challenges they see in their coaching - Tips on making the Review phase a habit - Customizing the Review to work for you - A Guided Weekly Review to give you a hands on experience in doing one yourself

If you’d like to purchase the complete set of mp3s and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

David Allen learned of Natalie Nagele through Adam Grant, and promptly scheduled this fascinating interview with her.

Natalie and her husband Chris co-founded a software company called Wildbit. Their tagline is, "We're more than a company. We're a family." They have fun company retreats, a four-day work week, and smooth, collaborative teamwork among their globally distributed group.

How do they do it? Start with every new employee receiving a copy of Getting Things Done. Listen to find out Natalie's advice on productivity, sharing GTD with coworkers and family, and more.

Wildbit's company site: https://wildbit.com/ And her Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/natalienagele

Part 12 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 11 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 10 of many - GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen's complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It's a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you've already built and learned.

If you'd like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 4 of many - David Allen and his senior staff share the GTD® best practices and models for seamlessly managing your projects.

There are bonus materials that include a rich set of PDF handouts and the GTD Live recording of David leading you through the Natural Planning Model®. To get the PDFs and the complete 5 hours of audio, please visit the GTD® Store.

Part 3 of many - David Allen and his senior staff share the GTD® best practices and models for seamlessly managing your projects.

There are bonus materials that include a rich set of PDF handouts and the GTD Live recording of David leading you through the Natural Planning Model®. To get the PDFs and the complete 5 hours of audio, please visit the GTD® Store.

How does he do it all? Barry Hillam has a family, teaches and practices dentistry, and is a professional musician with a busy rehearsal and performance schedule. He also runs marathons and plays golf. Listen as Barry describes the event that catalyzed his search for a way to be more productive, the development of his GTD® system, and the ongoing refinements he makes.

Don't miss the six-minute coda at the end. We thought we had finished, but started chatting and found that he had more to say about moving from control into higher perspectives, and about optimizing desk time.

(Originally published in May of 2018 on GTD Connect®)

Part 9 of many - GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen's complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It's a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you've already built and learned.

If you'd like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 8 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 7 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 2 of many – David Allen and his senior staff share the GTD® best practices and models for seamlessly managing your projects.

There are bonus materials that include a rich set of PDF handouts and the GTD Live recording of David leading you through the Natural Planning Model®. To get the PDFs and the complete 5 hours of audio, please visit the GTD® Store.

Part 1 of many - David Allen and his senior staff share the GTD® best practices and models for seamlessly managing your projects.

There are bonus materials that include a rich set of PDF handouts and the GTD Live recording of David leading you through the Natural Planning Model®. To get the PDFs and the complete 5 hours of audio, please visit the GTD® Store.

Prepare to be inspired by Simon Penhaligon's one-weekend implementation of GTD. After agreeing to take on twice his usual workload, Simon knew he needed a new way of working. Over one intense weekend, he listened to the Getting Things Done audiobook, and set up his system. Since getting into the GTD groove, Simon has been able to handle the expanded workload, while driving his inbox to zero daily, and still spending evenings and weekends with his wife and daughter. He uses Microsoft Outlook? for email and calendar, and Evernote? for everything else.

Part 6 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 5 of many - GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen's complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It's a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you've already built and learned.

If you'd like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 4 of many - GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen's complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It's a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you've already built and learned.

If you'd like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

David Allen recently spoke with Luca Gambetti, whose company E-quality Italia is the certified partner for GTD® in Italy. Their discussion centered around traditional and modern approaches to project management. Before becoming a GTD® Master Trainer, Luca worked extensively as a project manager. He has a background in Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban and others. His key piece of advice about projects? Keep track of your achievements, and take time to savor them. Luca confidently says that with GTD®, it is possible to live a more relaxed, focused life.

Part 3 of many - GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen's complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It's a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you've already built and learned.

If you'd like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 2 of many - GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen's complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It's a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you've already built and learned.

If you'd like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

Part 1 of many - GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen's complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It's a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you've already built and learned.

If you'd like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit: https://store.gettingthingsdone.com/audio-s/102.htm

Back in 2015, David Allen and Brian Robertson had a discussion about GTD and Holacracy. In this new talk, they catch up about the current state of the intersection between individual and organizational productivity. You'll hear some interesting similarities between the two models, as well as some parallels in their history and purpose.

(Originally recorded in March of 2018)

Lars Rothschild Henriksen describes his journey from working as a software engineer to becoming the only certified GTD trainer in Denmark. His inspirational story is based on his Horizon 5 interest in helping people, and finding GTD to be a very effective way to accomplish that purpose. He has used a wide variety of digital tools to track commitments, starting with Remember the Milk, then OneNote, Wunderlist, Outlook, and currently, Todoist. He also uses Evernote and OneNote for different types of reference.

You can find Lars on Twitter, Instagram, and on the GTDnordic.dk site.

(Originally recorded in March of 2018)

Stephen Reese is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He has long been a student of productivity, with years of history using tools from low-tech to high-tech. You'll enjoy hearing him discuss his GTD practice, especially his "habits of the mind for the intellectual craftsman."

The article that Stephen mentions during the interview is "The Intellectual Craftsman in a Digital World". On that page, scroll down to see the full article.

Stephen's faculty page has more information about his background, and links to additional resources.

Note: We had some audio static for a couple of minutes from 6:00 to 8:46, but it's clear after that.

Let's end the year with a compilation of all of David's Two Minute Tips as these turbulent times continue, plus these are gems you can reference at any point of your GTD® life. Happy New Year!

This is an installation and implementation session on the higher Horizons of Focus?. We will spend time exploring if anything has your attention at each of the horizons, and will end with integrating the horizons at the project and next action levels. During the session, there are sections where you can create or refine what you have on each of the horizons. The prompt questions for each of the horizons are listed below. These sections were about five minutes each in the live webinar. We have edited out those sections of silence for this recording. Please feel free to stop the recording as you reach those sections, and use the prompt questions below to work on each of your horizons. The webinar concluded with these two thoughts:

• Without clear purpose and direction you could easily be busy doing off-course things and wonder why a meaningful life is so elusive
• Getting the right small things done directly contributes to an authentic and meaningful life

HORIZON 5: Purpose and Principles My purpose and principles contribute to my authentic life. Trigger Questions: What gets me up out of bed in the morning? What is most meaningful to me? What, if I am doing or expressing it, makes me feel like I am being who I really am, at my best? When do I feel like I really ?show up?? What really matters to me, in terms of how I live and work? What do I hold as standards for myself, no matter what, in terms of how I am living and working? HORIZON 4: Vision My purpose and principles influence my vision. My vision contributes to my purpose and principles. Trigger Questions: If I were wildly successful fulfilling my purpose, living my principles, what might be true for me, several years from now? What might I be doing? What might I have? What experiences might I be having? Contexts: Career Lifestyle Energy/health Finances Relationships Time horizons: 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? More? HORIZON 3: Goals and Objectives My vision influences my goals and objectives. My goals and objectives contribute to my vision. Trigger Question: Given what?s currently in play, and what I?ve thought about today, what are the things I need to have happen, or would like to have true for me, within the next 12 to 24 months? HORIZON 2: Areas of Focus and Accountability My goals and objectives influence my areas of focus and accountability. My areas of focus and accountability contribute to my goals. Trigger Questions: What are the areas of accountability in my work? What are the areas of focus in my life? HORIZON 1: Projects My areas of focus and accountability influence my projects. My projects contribute to my areas of focus and accountability. GROUND: Calendar/Actions My projects influence my next actions. My next actions contribute to my projects. My next actions get the things that are meaningful to me done.

David explores the psychology of productivity with William Elliott, a counseling psychologist and GTD master trainer in South Africa. William describes his own journey with attention-deficit disorder, and finding GTD as a support for becoming more organized. He has wise words about how humility and accepting our limitations can improve our productivity and the overall quality of our lives. You'll likely resonate with his description of the background stress around "What do I say no to?" and how GTD helps with decision making and prioritizing. Regarding what's on our lists, he notes that there is an advance beyond safely ignoring to reach comfortably ignoring. Responding to a question from David, William says that his "brain has accepted that GTD is the life raft." (January 2018)

From the archives (July 2013) - Senior Coaches Meg Edwards and Kelly Forrister share the 3 types of ways to review your GTD system. You'll learn about what's best to review on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and yearly basis to keep on track and aligned with what's important to you. Includes helpful tips around reviewing projects, action lists, goals, areas of focus, and more.

David Allen talks about the question, "Is there really too much to do?"

From the archives (May 2010): Audio Only version of the third episode in the Road to Black Belt "boot camp" series, where Coaches Meg Edwards & Kelly Forrister take a deep dive into the Review & Do phases of GTD.

From the archives: Listen in as David chats with best-selling author Dan Pink, getting an inside look into his own path, his research and observations about people and the nature of work, and his own use of GTD for managing himself with all of that. Dan is a journalist and the author of Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell Is Human (April 2012)

David Allen explores how groups that want to foster friendliness can fall into the trap of not making it clear who is accountable for which outcomes. The result is not so nice.

From the archives: David Allen sits down with John Jantsch from Duct Tape Marketing and talk about Getting Things Done®

David Allen offers this reminder that you can be smarter than your mind by capturing, clarifying, and organizing your thoughts.

David Allen talks about capturing into your physical in-tray. 

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From the archives: David Allen interviews Garrison, the son of a staff member who was coached in GTD® at the age of 10 years old. What happens when someone grows up on GTD®?

From the archives: A discussion about all of the components that can possibly make up your ideal GTD® system, since there is no one perfect system.

From the archives: David talks with Greg Voisen from Inside Personal Growth as they discuss GTD. The topics and conversation have as much value today as they did back then.

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From the archives: Different perspectives on what's good to know and what's good to use when it comes to the abundance of list managers that are now available as GTD becomes more popular.

David Allen talks about the apparent, and the more subtle, power of naming things.

David hops on the Work Awesome podcast to talk about Getting Things Done.

From the archives: David was interviewed by Doug Goldstein about GTD in general but also about how it translates into the financial planning side of life. 

From the archives: Kelly Forrester and David Allen talk about pointers and tips, and where can you start, when it comes to learning GTD.

From the Archives: David Allen interviews Evan Taubenfeld, a young up-and-coming rock musician, writer, and producer. David calls him a prime candidate for the poster child of GTD. Listen in as Evan shares how he uses GTD in his creative process.

Lots to discuss about challenging times and the economy, and people trying to do more with less and how that relates to their individual and organizational systems.

From the archives: Kelly Forrester, David Allen and Robert Peake talk about some of the best practices to complete the Organize portion of the 5 step process, as they also describe what Organize really means.

From the archives: What would your organizational structure be like if everyone is fully accountable for the roles they hold, both implicitly and explicitly? Can you imagine meetings where the things that you have your attention on are consistently and efficiently processed to concrete Projects & Next Actions? Join David Allen and Kelly Forrister as they speak with the experts from HolacracyOne. They'll talk about the "Holacracy" operating system, how it's been integrated into the David Allen Company, and how it complements GTD.

From the GTD Slice of Life archive: Musician Evan Taubenfeld and entertainment lawyer Danny Passman join David Allen and Coach Kelly Forrister in an inspiring conversation about GTD for creative people. Lots of wonderful nuggets in this one about finding the creative spark within the structure of a GTD system.

From the archives: David Allen joins Scott Shafer on KQED Public Radio's show called Forum. He describes his system of reducing stress, becoming more creative, while increasing productivity.

From the archives: David shares his experience with GTD on the road and optimizing travel productivity.

Part 2 of 2 (The complete conversation is available at GTDconnect)

David Allen met with three trainers from our global network, to discuss how GTD can help to reduce burnout. While it has been an issue for years, burnout has been rising steeply since early 2020. The World Health Organization now calls burnout an official medical diagnosis.

It is a result of chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed, and is characterized by three dimensions:

1. feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion
2. increased mental distance from one?s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one?s job
3. reduced professional efficacy

For this discussion, David is joined by Emily Gregory, Morten Rovik, and William Elliott.

Morten shared an infographic on the stress curve. You can click here to download the PDF.

Emily Gregory VitalSmarts One Productive Minute

Morten Rovik produktiveNorge GTD Nordic podcast (in English)

William Elliott ActionCo

Part 1 of 2

David Allen met with three trainers from our global network, to discuss how GTD can help to reduce burnout. While it has been an issue for years, burnout has been rising steeply since early 2020. The World Health Organization now calls burnout an official medical diagnosis.

It is a result of chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed, and is characterized by three dimensions:

1. feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion
2. increased mental distance from one?s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one?s job
3. reduced professional efficacy

For this discussion, David is joined by Emily Gregory, Morten Rovik, and William Elliott.

Morten shared an infographic on the stress curve. You can click here to download the PDF.

Emily Gregory VitalSmarts One Productive Minute

Morten Rovik produktiveNorge GTD Nordic podcast (in English)

William Elliott ActionCo

From the archives: David talks about the challenge of procrastination and the reasons why we do it. He also explains the difference between procrastination and intuitive holding.

From the Archives: David talks about organizing project actions and explains that when we're thinking about a theme, topic, project, problem, situation, we tend to want to see everything about that all together...

From the archives: David steps out of his comfort zone to talk about his story and what excites him. 

From the Archives: David talks with Richard Rierson on the Dose of Leadership podcast about GTD®

From the Archives: David explains that there is no perfect tool, it doesn't matter. It does matter that you have a tool or some tools, and not rely on our psyches. You need a tool that matches the function.

From the archives: Coach Meg Edwards talks about how to get to a complete project list if you're like most people who hover at 30%-80% complete project lists, and how to get them to 100% complete.

GTD Coach, Meg Edwards, expands on what she sees as problems with people's incomplete Project Lists with a personal example.

From the archives: Les McKeown talks to David Allen about GTD for his Predictable Success podcast.

From the archives: History, So It Doesn't Repeat, interviews David Allen. They explore personal productivity and how to clear our mental RAM. You'll discover how to Get Things Done® and learn how to make informed choices with ease, by learning a few keystone habits, you'll be primed to be productive and create a stress free environment. Learning is the answer, what is the question?

From the archives: David talks about all the keys to filing and how it relates to GTD® and how it creates "clean edges".

From the archives: David talks about having a window into the professional world for kids before they enter into the working life.

From the Archives: David Allen on setting Goals for 2010 with Christy Nicholson of Scientific American. Advice you can use for any new year.

Please enjoy a segment from a webinar David Allen did for our GTD Connect members. It’s a guided mind sweep. It’s a really great opportunity to experience what you’ll find at GTDconnect.com and also be able to walk yourself through this really important practice with your GTD implementation.

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David talks about the value of the GTD Weekly Review®

GTD Coach, Meg Edwards, talks about how you can customize your lists and tells you how she sets up her action lists. Find what works for you.

In this episode, Meg Edwards shares how she performs an outdoor Mind Sweep.  She models for us how a Mind Sweep can be done anywhere, and how this process can be used to bring additional items to mind when you're in a given context.

If you'd like to hear more about the Mind Sweep and how it can serve you in capturing more items to gain control, listen to episode 3 where David Allen guides you through a full Mind Sweep.

In this episode we present an excerpt from a talk that David gave in front of a live audience. It covers procrastination, what type of people are the most susceptible to getting stuck, and how to stop procrastinating on your taxes….and everything else.

A bit of a repeat if you've listened to my other tips, but one I just wanted to reinforce. Outcome and Action Thinking.

Outcome and action are the two core elements of productivity. What do I want to produce or experience? And how do I need to allocate or reallocate my resources to make it happen? So that kind of thinking, as simple as that sounds, is something that we need to train ourselves to do. It's really a cognitive muscle you need to work with. So anything that's got your attention, anything that's either worrying or bothering you. That's the time to practice this sort of cognitive muscle. To use it.

What would you like to have true? Instead of whatever is currently true. And how do you need to reallocate, or allocate your attention, your activities, your resources, to make that happen?

For those of you asking "What's that huge pile of books back there David?" Frankly, the outcome was, I had a bunch of archives of all of the translated versions of my book in the different languages that we were going to throw away when we moved to Amsterdam. We said, nah we should probably keep at least one copy of each, but we live in an apartment. So, a small space. Outcome... How do you do that? That's a great bookshelf you can get from a company called Design Within Reach in the U.S. that actually works, where you can stack all those things up and they don't fall over. Anyway, so that's what that is.

So, outcome and action thinking. I just challenge you, invite you, to apply that somewhere that you might be not thinking you ought to apply that, or that you haven't done that yet. So, what's the outcome you're after? What's the action step you need to take to move toward it?

In many many cases now, that's become something that's just habit in my life given what I teach and what I've explored over all these years about how to keep your head clear. So hopefully this will be just a reminder for those of you already familiar with that idea. To apply it wherever you need to apply it now.

You know this is another one of those kind of out of the box things but this could be a really good time to do some reflection on new stuff. New relationships. New ways to manage your relationships. New ways of managing yourself. Being able to work more independently, even if you're still part of an organization, and need to be connected to it.

We grow with challenges, so the challenges that we may all be in right now or experiencing in some way, shape, or form they're going to teach a strength, patience, and tolerance I've discovered after my 75 years. That tends to show up and expand, and kind of add to the quality of my life. Add to the relaxation of my life. Add to the focus of my life.

One very useful key many times, is journaling. If you're not doing that already you might want to consider just sitting down and just writing. Just writing out. I've done journaling on both my computer as well as with a great fountain pen and a wonderful journal, over the years in my life.

There have been times that was really really helpful. Just to help kind of uncork, unload and open up some creative thinking that could go on when you're in times that sort of force some reflection where reflection could be highly useful to you. So, be crazy about what could be cool in your life, in lots of different ways. Be open to all the options for that.

Upgrade, you know if you have any downtime at all, with that kind of backed off time that we have, in the pandemic. It's the situation we're dealing with right now.

This is a time to think, it's part of one of those backlog things, one of those things you may have had in the back of your mind. I need to upgrade my computer. I need to upgrade my operating system. I need to upgrade this piece of software. I need to upgrade any of my technology, and any of my tools.

If you're painting, do you have the right brushes? Do you need to upgrade those? If you're playing the flute, or the piano, do you need to upgrade any of the music that you have to be able to practice with?

So I know this is kind of an off-the-wall question. But, a good idea to sort of access, is there anything that you might want to bring up to current speed? That you enjoy, that you love, or you need to be involved with.

I love Kevin Kelly's book from a few years ago, talking about the inevitable, talking about the inevitable trends that are happening to all of us, no matter what. He basically made the point that, you're never going to get really any good at anything because there are going to be constant upgrades, especially in software. So, I used to think that I could just resist upgrades to my Quicken because I thought I could manage it, but now I can't afford to do that because, who knows, to be able to manage Quicken and my accounting stuff personally I need to have the current version.

So it's kind of like, trust that you're never going to get truly on board with everything, currently and totally, but some of those things might need to be upgraded, and that could be just a process. You kind of get the zen of that. OK, let me just keep upgrading, getting better at, getting more stuff that might work. So, just in case that triggers any kind of a thought. Any kind of a thing you might want to add to your list. Hopefully that's helpful.

How much money do you actually have in your bank account? How do you and the people in your family really feel right now? Really.  What's really going on in your professional environment? In your personal environment?

Not generalizing or exaggerating. Most people have a tendency, me too, to generalize. Everybody's leaving. It's so awful. Everybody's leaving the company, what do you mean? Everybody's leaving. It's so awful. Everybody's leaving the company? What do you mean? Well, Sally said she thought she might want to get a new career. And over 35 years of my consulting and coaching practices, I've often seen, And over 35 years of my consulting and coaching practices, I've often seen, all I have to do is to start to address, what is the real current reality?  

And there are lots of ways to do that, but I would highly recommend you examine whether you're running any exaggerations or generalizations. That may be creating more pressure than you need. What's really true? What do you know what's really true? What do you know is actually really true?

Not "What do you think is true?", or "What do people say is true?"  But, what do you *know* it actually really true? It gives you a grounded base to actually make decisions from.

I could spin on that for a long time, but let me just say if that rings any of your bells at all, notice whether you're generalizing and exaggerating. And if so, stop it!

Just say what's really true right now? Because you need to know what's the current reality so that you can then move from a ground base of reality. Not from some expectation of that, or generalization of that, or exaggeration of that.

I'll steal a play from Marie Kondo's work that she's been doing, by getting people to clean up closets and clean up their environment. And only keep the things you love and that turn you on.

Mine's a little more universal. Look, there's a lot of things that don't turn you on that you still need to keep. There's a lot of things that you need to kind of look at and say, yeah I'm not sure whether I want to throw that away or not. That's fine. But it's not a bad idea, especially in times like these, if you have any kind of extra time at all, to, as I say, bring up the rear guard.

I've mentioned this in several of my other two-minute tips, but this is sort of the universal clean up. Clean up your computer. Clean up your closets. Clean up the boot or the trunk of your car. Your garage, your attic, any spaces that you have. Any rented spaces that you have, to hold old stuff.

The world is just so addicted to hanging onto a lot of stuff, as opposed to being clean and clear. So I highly recommend you look around. What books need to be given away? What clothes need to be given away? What shoes have you not worn for two years? Where can you give those things away that people might be able to use that?

So look around your environment and say, how functional is it? How useful is it? How current is it in terms of the reality of these things and their meaning to you? And that's fine. There's no right or wrong in terms of whatever that volume is. It may be whatever it is that you want, how ever much you feel comfortable. But most people feel slightly uncomfortable about what's still in their closet, what's still in the drawers of their desk, what's still anywhere. So now's a good time, when I say "When in doubt, clean a drawer", it'll help a ton.

Well, you may already have a groove, but I imagine your groove has been disturbed to a large degree by whatever has been going on in the world lately. And especially in turbulent times, it's going to disturb your groove. Get into a new one.

So ask yourself. What about my groove do I need to put into a groove? That I can comfortably now, given the world, and given what's been going on. Whether that's when to take a walk, how often you need to exercise, how often you need to talk to people you need to talk to people about. Any of that. It's a good idea to get into a groove, because some part of us really loves to have a habit, it loves to have something traditional that we do regularly. So that we don't have to be thinking so much about that. But we use that as an opportunity to sort of lift our thinking, relax. Kind of look at the world from a higher perspective of things.

So what's your groove now? Does your groove work? If it doesn't, think about what would you need to do to improve your groove? I highly recommend that you think about that. And think, what are the simple things you could do? They don't have to be complex, or expensive, or anything. What do I need to do to get myself into a more regular, consistent basis? To handle the world that's now changed for me and that I need to be engaging with appropriately.

So, are you in your groove? If not, what do you need to do to improve your groove? And boy that could look like a lot of different things. But give yourself permission to be creative about that. Reflect a little bit on that, and perhaps take any necessary actions you need to take, to make that groove sort of more automatic and easy to do.

I'll quote my wonderful wife Kathryn. Laughter and Soap. At some point you just need to laugh, and you need to clean up. She sort of nailed it brilliantly.

If you haven't done it lately, at least look for a good joke. At least find some way to find something to laugh about. Something funny, something that makes no sense. Those are always wonderful things to do.

And soap, obviously clean up. I've been trained by my wife, when I walk in the door, Wash your hands David! Which I do. And I have to laugh about my hair, which I usually keep fairly short. Pretty soon I'm going to look like I looked in Berkeley in 1970. But that's ok, so I'm kind of laughing about, well David you're gonna have longer hair until your favorite barber comes back in a little while.

So anyway, a small little tip for turbulent times, but sometimes it might be quite healthy just to make sure you sort of plug into your world, laughter and soap, and make sure those are sort of regular things. that you engage in and people around you. I hope that's helpful, I know it's silly but it works for me.

In these kinds of times, that's actually in retrospect when we find out we've learned how to grow. We've expanded. We've stretched ourselves. We've challenged ourselves, we've had to look at things from whole new perspectives.

So my tip is to shorten that time of reflection and introspection about what these times could mean for us. What we could learn. What you might be doing differently after this in terms of relationships, in terms of your systems, in terms of how you're approaching your career. Your world. Given what we've been dealing with.

I'm not saying they're easy answers to that. But again, you won't find answers until you ask the questions. So my tip is, as I have to challenge myself regularly, What am I learning now, given what I'm dealing with? What can I do differently? What will this bring to the plate? In terms of how I could approach my world differently and what I might be able to do more successfully, or more elegantly, more easily, given what I've learned.

Learning happens in challenging times, not when times are easy. So I highly recommend you take advantage as best you can. Understand this is not the easiest thing to do, when things are stressful and things are on you and you're so distracted by a lot of what you may be dealing with. But it's also a good time to sit back, reflect, meditate, relax. Reflect and think. What could I be learning now? Reflect and think. What could I be learning now? What could I be doing differently now? And start to build that into your life and your work.

Out of the box here... I Am Unreasonably Joyful.

That's an affirmation I've actually used for many many years. And when I heard it, or when I thought of it, I thought, what a cool thing to do. To just take me out of the box. I'm unreasonably joyful.

Given the world we're in, and especially the times we're in being joyful about anything seems to be one of the hardest things to do. But if you want a real tip, to just kind of break yourself out of some of the code that we're in. You'll think better, when you're happier, when you're more up, when you have more positive energy. And so creating the affirmation to me, was a useful bandaid to use when things were like insane. When it made no sense to be joyful or happy.

And so it's just a big tip. Give yourself permission, for at least a minute, to just pretend that there are all kinds of things to be joyful about. So, be unreasonably joyful. It's a great thing to do. Also, learn to do that when you're in these kinds of stressful up against the wall kind of times. It's a great great thing to do. It's a great tip. It's a great tip I've used for myself, and still have to use on a regular basis. I'm unreasonably joyful, look at my peonies behind me, they so represent that. Ba Da!!

Actually, it's a tip I'd give anybody any time.

And those of you familiar with the Getting Things Done methodology will know this already. The Two Minute Tool.

The Two Minute Tool basically says, look, any action you've figured out that you could actually complete within two minutes, of where you are in the context you are, in the location you are, you're better off to that right then than to hang up on it, not do it, put it in the backlog or whatever.

Frankly, that's the efficiency factor. It would take you less than two minutes to do it, but it would take you longer than two minutes to look at it again and review it and reflect on it later on. So this is a pure efficiency factor of the Two Minute Rule.

Anything you can do in less than two minutes, if you need to do it at all then do it right then. And people say, well if I spent my whole day two minute stuff I'd never get anything else done. Well first of all, you'd be amazed as to how many strategic things have just a two minute action that are required on it. And not only that, why should these things still be around?

You either delete them, or if they've shown up, then they should be finished in the moment they're there. I never have any backlog of two minute stuff because they're all done.

First of all, the key thing is to decide what's the very next action on something I need to do about any of this change that's happening, any of this stuff I'm involved in right now. What would I need to do next? Once you've decided very clearly and specifically what that is if you can do it in less then two minutes, do it right then. Teflon, boom! In and out. You'll be amazed. I've had many executives tell me that was worth the price of admission. Just for that habit, if they didn't have that already. So hopefully you've built that in, or you will build that in.

If it takes less then two minutes, do it.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Clean Up Your Computer

Now if you haven't done this already, and you have some down time, or at home time, or whatever. Then, come on guys, it's like when you get your car washed, or your motorcycle washed, or whatever, it drives better. Well very much the same thing with your computer.

Come on, this is like a master tool if you're doing any kind of knowledge work at all. This is reference, this is creativity, this is communications. This is your work. And so it's really nice to make sure that this doesn't become like a black hole. It starts to get clogged up with a lot of old stuff. The more old stuff I found that accumulate in my computer the less anxious, or the less interested I am in looking back for something or going back into that area.

But there's a lot of creativity that will show up if you actually do that. Like email, what's your backlog? The bigger your backlog of email, the more any kind of change or surprise is going to be bothersome, even the good stuff. So clean up email. There's a lot of tips you'll see on my YouTube channel about just dealing with email and that backlog.

I met somebody with thousands of Evernote notes in there, that they never looked at. As they said it's kinda write-only, as opposed to read-only. You stick stuff in, but you never then get back to it. So it's very important that your reference material, and all that stuff, as best you can, is just brought current. So maybe there's stuff you need to move into the cloud, stuff you need to put into Dropbox. Things you need to reorganize, or reframe, or refresh, or whatever.

But a real good idea to just look around, and if you've got some down time, one of the best kind of dummy things to do, is clean up. Clean up your digital world. It will help a ton.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Areas of Focus, Responsibility and Interests

Revisit or Create an Overview of Your Areas of Focus, Responsibility and Interests It's a different horizon of your commitments. You've got actions you need to take, and you've got projects you need to finish. But the reason you have actions, and projects is because they respond to or they relate to areas of focus and interests.

For instance, you may have a project about your kids, well that's because obviously kids and family will be an area of focus. You may have a project about your health, in which case heath and your physical energy is an area of interest or focus. So it's a next level of abstraction, a useful place to visit, especially when things are changing a lot. Where you might need to revisit these different areas and say, how's everything doing?

This is like being your own CEO, your own executive, essentially, for your life. Looking across all of your roles, and responsibilities, and accountabilities. If you haven't done this lately, not a bad idea just to brainstorm it. You could just do a mind map. Spiritual Life - Relationships - Fun - My Health - Family

It's a way to overview, essentially, sort of the whole context, so that there's a part of you that feels like you're more grounded in space and time, from the larger gestalt. Very helpful thing to do, we've done that over the years, for many thousands of people, who've gone through that exercise. And it's extremely valuable. And it might surprise you, what you'll come up with. If you really identify those things accurately and appropriately and say How am I doing about that?

Some of those may be on cruise control, hey that's all fine. Oh, that reminds me, I need to, I better take a look at that, better look at it from that perspective. So getting grounded essentially from that little longer or larger horizon. Very valuable thing to do, especially when things are changing fast. So that some part of you doesn't feel that you're losing your footing, in terms of the whole game.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Get Your Cockpit Under Control

What I mean by that is, your workspace. Where when you sit down, you are ready to fly, you're ready to go. You don't have to rearrange anything in order to be able to do your best work. There's mine, it's been quite functional for several years, something like this. And I don't mean particularly anal or compulsive about this. You just want to not have to rearrange things, look for things, when you're ready to just go to work. And so sit down and be able to do that.

Another important aspect of that is I would highly recommend you do not share that space with anybody else. You don't want them rearranging it for themselves and then you have to come back and rearrange it in order to get work done.

You want to lower the barrier of entry to engage. You've got a bright idea, you're in the kitchen, you've suddenly thought about something that you need to send an email about or want to surf the web about, or whatever. You need to be able to run right in, sit down, and hit the controls, right there.

So you know, simple stuff, just in basket, computer, tools, scissors, pens and so forth. Certainly a writing instrument, a capture tool, to be able to capture stuff right away. As well as right at hand files and folders, etc.

Assess, if you haven't done it lately, you might want to look around. Is your workspace set up so that right at any time, you can go to work? And work, meaning anything you might want to do. Based upon being in your cockpit, central control center. And be able to then, navigate, communicate, coordinate, things from there. Get Your Cockpit Under Control If it's not already, or look at how you might want to enhance it.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen One Bad Apple Can Spoil the Barrel

So this is a cautionary tale. There are times when one situation, project, or circumstance that's particularly important to you, you're not appropriately engaged with yet can color the whole rest of your life, and make it all feel grey, and solemn, and burdensome. Where as it's really just one situation that you need to get ahold of.

You know, our Getting Things Done methodology is a lot about creating appropriate engagement with the things that you're committed to do. Are you appropriately engaged with this project? Or with this relationship? Or with your health, etc. And appropriate engagement just means you've identified what it is, what outcome you're after, the action step you need to take to move it forward. and have a trusted system to hold all that. But any one thing, if you're not doing that yet, if you have not yet gotten to that place of appropriate engagement. Can, as I said, discolor the whole rest of your life, emotionally and everything else.

It can then make the whole game feel overwhelming Whereas it's only coming from only one source, or one thing that you need to sort of tackle, and to grapple with. And that is, identify what that thing is, that seems to be coloring everything and get appropriately engaged with it.

I'm not saying this is easy, folks come on. If life were easy, you'd never grow or challenge, or expand, or express yourself. It's really about how do I get in the driver's seat about that? So it doesn't color my life and sort of affect all the other things I could be doing. So in a way you need to isolate it, identify it, and get appropriately engaged with it.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Renegotiate Your Commitments

See a lot of what the Getting Things Done methodology is about has been about inventorying what your commitments are. What have you agreed with yourself you need, would, could, should, ought to be doing, handling or whatever. And so managing those commitments is a whole lot of what the methodology is about to keep yourself clear, so that you don't feel like you're constantly having to do all of those.

There's an inherent renegotiation process that needs to happen. Once you've externalized these commitments out of your head You write it down, I need dog food, I need to hire a vice president, I need to figure out where to send my kid to school next year, etc. And those commitments, as you may know, that's very important to make sure get that inventory nice and clear, about what those are.

But now in turbulent times, that becomes extra important, to make sure you're looking forward at all those commitments you've got. All those things on your lists. All those appointments that you thought you had. All those relationships that you thought you needed to do something about. How many of those need to be renegotiated right now? And if they're not renegotiated, they will keep spinning on some subliminal level. That's going to undermine your energy, it's going to take wind out of your sails.

So it's a real good idea to make sure that you sit down, maybe in a week to review. As we coach in Getting Things Done, at least once a week, step back, take a look across the whole broad spectrum, of your life and work, look at all the commitments you've got, the meetings you've got, the projects you've committed to, and say wait a minute, that goes on someday maybe, or that has to wait until after this situation has been cleared up and changed, or whatever.

So, a real good idea to make sure you bring yourself current, bring up the rear guard, with those commitments, and sometimes they're pretty subtle.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Catch Up Your Communications with People

Another nice thing to do especially in terms of catching up, it's often times subtle. And depending on your personality style about how much you engage with other people.

Who do you owe a thank you to? Who do you owe a communication with to update them? All the best things in my life have actually come from relationships that I've had. Surprising serendipitous stuff. But as a bit of an introvert, I actually am. I often times have to work at making sure that I maintain my communications externally, and that I nurture them and take advantage of that.

I highly recommend you think about, what are just some emails to shoot off, simple little things, or come on, get some note cards and write a hand written note. Those things are invaluable, as you probably know. That's another little thing to do, you might want to consider as a project maybe, is you catch up on all of those communications, with family, with friends with network, professional associates, etc. Especially these days when everybody is locked in and not available there. Those kinds of things could have tremendous value. Just in terms of keeping the network warm, and not feeling so mechanical and that we're all so locked down, and out of touch with each other.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen What's Really Got Your Attention?

Many of my tips are about sort of catching up, and simple things to do kind of keep your energy up, clean things up, catch up. This one is a big one.

What circumstance, situation that you're in right now, if that were put onto cruise control, or if you were appropriately engaged with that would make the biggest difference? Would give you the most physic space essentially. Would relieve the most pressure on you. Sometimes that's the thing you need to grapple with.

Interestingly, what you think may have your most attention...Once you recognize what has your attention, you may then discover what really has your attention. It can go to some pretty subtle and sublime and deep levels, if you allow it to. Nothing wrong with that, nothing bad about that, as a matter of fact, it's a very powerful thing to do, and to think about.

So I highly recommend that you take a little bit of time and say "What most has your attention?" And then "What do you need to do to appropriately engage with that?" So it gets off your mind, gets onto cruise control, gets onto wherever it needs to be.

And as you know, if you're a Getting Things Done practitioner, it's all about what's the outcome you're after, and what's the action step you need to take, to move forward on that. Powerful stuff, I have to hold myself to this regularly as well. Even after all these years of working with the materials, I'm a fellow student.

What most has your attention? Define what that is, define what you need to do about that, to put that onto cruise control. That could give you the most freedom, the most space of anything else you might be able to do.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Worst Case Scenario Building

I know this may sound a little strange, but one of the best and healthiest things you can do is to actually do a scenario of the worst case, and then imagine you getting through that. And could you handle it? Because the worst case scenario is likely to be banging around subliminally anyway. What you need to do is to relieve that pressure, and the way out is through.

The best thing to do is to sit down and figure out, what could the worst case be? Can I and could we, tolerate that? That will relieve a bunch of pressure and give you much more freedom to focus on wild success. Obviously you don't want to be dwelling on the negative picture. You don't want to sit there and be fatalistic or dwell in some sort of negative picture building. But you do want to go through that and take a look. That allows you a lot more freedom to then focus effectively and productively as you kind of shoot down the middle.

Prepare for the worst, or at least be ready for it, if in case it happens. Imagine the best, and shoot down the middle. My tip for turbulent times.

When the pandemic first hit, that very much effected our business, and our income, so I had to sit down and I just pulled up an Excel spreadsheet and ran the numbers for the next year or so. Could we tolerate it? Could we manage it? Yes we could. Now ideally we don't have to or won't have to do that. It allowed me the freedom to then not have that lurking in the background as some sort of a concern. Can I handle the worst case if I can't get to my barber for another month? Worst case might be I'll look like I did in Berkeley in 1970. Or maybe the worst case is I'll be attacked by my wife and her dog shearing tools while I'm asleep and wake up with something a little shorter then it is. Anyway, do the worst case scenario, get through it, relax, and focus on the best.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Labelers

I know that may sound a little dumb and dorky, when you're in a turbulent time to think about a labeler. What's a labeler? Any of you old GTD practitioners probably know how adamant I've been about the value of labeling things. Being able to have a typeset labeler. If you're not doing anything else, order yourself a labeler, if you don't have one already. You'd be amazed at how much of a difference it makes, to make sure your files look like that, and have nice labels on them. It does make a difference.

A lot of people say they had no idea how much of a difference just a labeler would make. In terms of how I manage myself, my information, access to it. Labels can be used for anything, they can be used for file folders obviously, but they could also be used for plastic bags, where you're keeping track of pills, or you're keeping track of electronic equipment, or just wrapping a label around a piece of electronic gear, so you know what it's about. All those are great things. By the way, I use a DYMO plug and play. You can use it in the Windows or the Mac environment, no software required. And you just hook it up, wire it up, whatever. So if I'm making a file right now for TTTT I just type it in, click, here it is, TTTT. I can then put in on a file folder, and I'm done. I know it may seem strange in turbulent times, to think about a labeler, but you never know.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Catch Up On Legal Stuff

This is a tip, that would be nice to have implemented before turbulent times. And certainly needed no matter when. But it's one of those old projects that often for many people lies in the background, because it's the kind of stuff you don't want to think about. Wills, what to do if we can't make decisions ourselves, healthcare. All those legal documents that manage what happens if you can't manage it. And what goes on from there. Believe me, this could be everything from Life insurance, that people don't want to think about. Luckily there are people in your life that will be glad you thought about that. If you haven't done that already.

So a two-minute tip here, come on folks. Any of those old kind of legal situations and documents, what happens when you die? Do you want to be cremated? And all those other life critical documentations that you need So that you feel comfortable about what happens, no matter what. So in these kind of times, if you have any down time, and you need to catch up on your legal documentations, and life insurance, and wills, and all that other stuff. Great stuff to do, so take advantage of that.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Crusty Projects

It'd be a good idea to do an inventory of any old crusty projects that have been sort of hanging around in your life and work. This would probably be a good time to tackle those, or renegotiate them. Just drop them off the list, or move them to someday / maybe. But you may have something like, clean up the basement, or rearrange a room. Or set up a whole new filing system that you wanted to do. It's a good idea to make sure that those are on your list, if they want to be on your list, and tackle them. This is a good time to do stuff like that.

Again, when things turn around and they're not so turbulent again they'll probably never get done, because you'll be busy and back in your normal life, if there is a normal life coming toward us again. Hopefully so. Anyway, that's my tip for the turbulent times. It's a real good idea, again it's one of those things that can catch up and you can feel like you're completing some stuff, you can feel like you're back on your game. It's not a bad idea to do that, especially if you have other people around in your life that are affected and care about those kinds of projects getting finished, and getting cleaned up, and getting handled.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Get Your Paper Based Filing System in Order

Actually, it's a tip for any time... If you don't have a really good, quick filing system that you can put stuff into and access easily. Then the stuff tends to mount up and then constipate your system. Get it clean, get it streamlined, get it current. Here's mine. My paper based system now lives three places. In a 2 drawer file cabinet, a rack of files, right on my desk, and then upstairs in an attic area, I have long term storage. My primary filing system is just a simple file drawer, alpha sorted, of things that I need, paper based. And sometimes paper based is better then PDFs, easier to see in a batch if I need to refer to something.

Anyway, there's my basic filing system, I used to have four drawers now, it's primarily in one. I have a lower drawer here that has some older documents, that I might need, you know, legal documents etc., that I might need to refer to three or four times a year maybe, but they're down there, as well as extra file folders. And then on my desk are the things that I actually throw stuff into almost on a daily basis. So, that's the filing system. It needs to be current, it needs to be clean and that makes a huge difference. You'd be surprised at how good a filing system like that can make sure that you keep your cockpit, and keep your desk and work area, nice and clean and organized.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen The Capture Step of GTD®

If you're familiar with the Getting Things Done model and methodology is the primary step to start with, that is, to get your head empty of anything that has your attention. And in turbulent times, it's very probable that you've got a whole lot of stuff that has emerged, that has your attention.

Interestingly there's an inverse relationship between, on your mind, and getting done. So the things that have your attention mean they're probably not on cruise control. There's some decision about them you need to make and some sort of organization of the results of that, in a reminder system.

But the first step is just to get it out of your head. So if you haven't done one lately, and especially if things are changing and you've got surprises and things that you're dealing with, newly so. Then it's a real good idea to get those out of your head.

So, pen and paper, you can't beat it And I suggest, that you first of all have an in basket or in tray or something that serves that function, and actually get a stack of paper, it doesn't matter what size, but each one of those things that's on your mind, write it on a separate piece of paper, and throw it in your in basket. That could be everything from, we need pet food, we need to rethink how we're managing the kids in their school we need to, oh just anything. It could be health stuff, it could be old business that's surfaced now that you need to deal with. It could be things that need to be changed and rearranged on your schedule. It could be any number of things.

So I highly recommend you give yourself a few minutes maybe half an hour or so, and just unload. That's a first step. It doesn't handle all of those things but it does allow you to get a lot more objective about them and it makes it a lot easier to get on top of them. Once you take a look at them, step back, kind of from a higher perspective and see what all those things are, and of course, then tackling them with, what's the next action, on any of those that you're going to move on.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen Rearrange Space

Often times I think we just go numb to the spaces that we've gotten used to. Where we work at home, how we cook at home, how we live in our living rooms, or dens, or wherever. Sometimes space makes a huge difference, and there are times when it's time to then re-think. Should I rearrange this room? Should I rearrange how we're doing? Ask yourself, how are you living? Where are you spending your time? A lot of people have gone unconscious and whole environments have gone unconscious. Living room, people often don't live in their living room. They live in, usually, in the kitchen or the den, or wherever. It's an interesting exercise to go through. What's the purpose of this room? And is it really arranged appropriately? Like I would really want it, or what would be maximal for me.

Especially if you've just transitioned to having to work a lot of time from home. A real good idea, if you haven't done this already, is to look around your work space. Is it arranged appropriately? I was just reading that the small desk purchases around the world have gone up tremendously Of course, people are now trying to set up a home office, or reconfigure their home office. So that's a real good thing to do, make sure that your office, and your space, when you sit down to work, and think, and to do creative things, is arranged appropriately. So maybe you need to rearrange, look around your room, is it the way it should be? If you had to start from scratch again, would you arrange it the way it is? Hopefully that gives you some ideas, maybe some creative things to do a down time.

Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen The Night Before

People have often interviewed or asked me, How do I spend my day? What kind of rituals do I have to sort of stay on top of my game on a consistent basis? The one thing that I really do consistently, and I share with people is what I call "My day starts the night before”.

Before I go to bed, or sometime in the evening what I do is pull up my calendar and look at the next 1, 2, 3 days, maybe the week. Just to get a sense of, what does the landscape look like? In terms of the hard landscape, the things I'm committed to have to do, I need to be in that meeting, that virtual meeting at 3 o'clock, I need to be able to tomorrow, to make sure to that I pick up X Y Z, whatever.

So, I do that the night before. First of all, because I love to sleep, It allows me to sleep as long as I can before I actually have to do something. Also, I'm not surprised when I get into my day. There are enough surprises we have to deal with. I want to be able to tee myself up, or get myself prepared, before I go to sleep.

I think, my hypothesis is that overnight, in the sleep state, that gives us an opportunity to integrate the stuff and make us feel more comfortable in the landscape, in terms of how we're engaging with ourselves. I highly recommend it, if you're not doing it already, maybe you are but that every evening you sit down, take a look at the next day, 2, 3, maybe the week.

Take a look at the forest you're managing, instead of just hugging the trees. and allow yourself to then relax and sleep, as best and as long as can, or as much as you need to. And then make sure your day is not a surprise.