GTD - Productivity Up - Stress Down?
Anybody that follows what I’ve been upto recently will be familiar with David Allen’s Book - Getting Things Done.
I’ve been a bit lapse recently but seem to be getting somewhere with it now. I need to put a bit more of a concerned effort in. I think I’ve motivated my other half to give David Allen’s technique a go as well having watched David Allen’s Google Techtalk:
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Interestingly one of the things David says really early on is that the older you are the more likely you are to want to use the whole system, the younger you are the more like you are to just the tips and tricks… Either way it’s a system I’m going to do my damnedest to adopt in one form or another!!!Some further reading on this:
- I quite enjoyed 96iantSteps 10 minute GTD Crash Course, this almost borders on the crash course I gave my wife on the subject last month!
- If like me your ToDo lists have really only referred to the here and now, with things that are current and need addressing at least in the next week or so you’ll really benefit from doing this kind of “collection” or “RAM” Dump.
- Inbox Zero was how I found out about GTD, after introducing a colleague to Inbox Zero he trundled off to find David Allen and couldn’t recommend the book more highly. You can actually see how much less stressed he is!
- Read how Chris Brogan tamed his inbox.
- You may find (if you use Gmail and Firefox) the GTDInbox extension useful.
- If you find yourself struggling to adapt to a failing GTD system which you’ve implemented, you may want to Reboot Your GTD System. The problem may not actually be the system it may be it’s owner! (that’s you!)
- Not so much the GTD System, more a case of what can you use to get things done: Michael Gray delves into the tools that he uses.
My question to you - how do you get things done - if you had to give somebody one top tip to get through days and their work life easier - what would it be?
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