Tips To Manage Your Calendar Notifications And Reminders
watch time: 8:20 mins. It’s time to free yourself from the stress of calendar reminders and notifications – find out how with these useful tips and...
GTD® And AI (Video Podcast)
In this episode, Robert and Todd discuss what the recent rise in AI could mean for your GTD® system. watch time: 31 mins Subscribe to the Podcast [music] 0:00:05.4 Robert Peake: So welcome everyone to another Change Your Game with GTD Podcast. My name is Robert Peake,...
3 Questions For Your Productivity Buddy
Ever considered having a productivity buddy? Now could be the right time – but make sure they’re asking these three key questions.
Overwhelm vs Overload – What’s The Difference And What To Do! (Part 1)
watch time: 9:27 mins Overwhelm is a very common term these days. But are you actually overwhelmed or overloaded? What is the difference and what can you do? Check out today’s video for how to avoid feeling overwhelmed and overloaded at...
Lessons Learned From Using GTD® To Have A Completely Unplugged Holiday
est. reading time: 7 mins During Stress Awareness month many of us – especially parents and teachers – will be planning to travel alone or with our families in an attempt to relax and unwind. I’m just back from 6 days abroad with my wife and children,...
The Missing Piece For Better Calendar Management
watch time: 5:47 mins You are probably already using calendar blockers to be more productive, but you may be missing a trick to improve your time and calendar...
How Much Thinking Do You Need To Do?
Clarifying your work is a big part of GTD, but how much thinking do you really need to do for all your projects?
Making Your GTD® System Comprehensive (Video Podcast)
In this podcast episode, Todd and Robert discuss what it means to have a comprehensive system and what the benefits are.
What Do You Call Yours?
Est. reading time: 4 mins. Some things come with a name that you adopt. My house for example already had a name when we bought it, which I liked straight away, learnt about its meaning to the person who built the house more than a century ago, and have grown to love...
How To Manage (And Supercharge) Your Calendar!
Everyone is familiar with using their calendar but we’re guessing there are quite a few things you can do to improve your calendar and time management at work! Check out today’s video for better calendar management...
Creating Focus In 2023 (Video Podcast)
In today’s podcast episode, Robert and Todd discuss creating more focus at the start of the new year, to help you achieve more with less stress.
How To Start Your Resolutions
It’s the new year and that means everyone has new goals and resolutions. But if you’ve found they don’t tend to work, perhaps you’ve missed the simple key to get started. In today’s blog we confirm that true lifestyle change is...
Getting Christmas 2023 Done And Enjoy Christmas 2022
Three days and then it’s finally Christmas! You have all your gifts ready, all invitations for your parties are sent out, you said yes to exactly what you needed most, you said no to all nonesense. Your work is already finished, you’ve done a thorough...
Good Morning, Beautiful!
What a lovely way to start your day – “Good morning, Beautiful”! This is how one of my current coaching clients is greeted every morning. The words aren’t from a loved one – although I’m sure that happens, too – but from her GTD® system. I smiled broadly when I...
Working From Home : A new tool or new approach needed ? PART I
2020, the pandemic strikes. The stressful health environment, a second child on its way and my job at a financial services company called for a firm grip on my productivity. Already in March 2020 we’d been called to work from home and before chopping down any...
Is Your Laundry Basket Half Empty Or Half Full?
Do you put on a load as soon as there are enough dirty clothes or do you wait until you run out of clean clothes? Do you do things when you can or when the red alert is flashing that the final deadline is right here? Consider your laundry basket as a Next Actions List...
The Grateful Ed
The roof of the tent was glowing red. Not a good thing in dry conditions in a forest, what with the wildfires and all. I shucked my sleeping bag, unzipped the tent door, and staggered outside to take a look. It took a moment to get my bearings, but then it became...
How Your Shopping List Works
Several of the most powerful elements of the GTD® methodology are simply the extension of some habits many people are already using, in some form, into other areas of their lives, or applying some practises they have in place, in some situations, to many other areas...
GTD: Craftsmanship For Knowledge Workers
Can the concepts of craftsmanship be applied to knowledge workers?...
What’s The Difference Between An Input And An Inbox?
We are overloaded with input from so many areas in our lives these days, so let’s discuss what distinguishes an input from an inbox to help your journey towards higher...
Thinking In Four Dimensions
I’m old enough to remember life before email, and it makes me shudder. I love email (and, truth be told, text messaging too) because it’s asynchronous. I write the message when it suits me to write it, and you read it when it suits you to read it. Unlike an...
The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Back in the day I was a commuter. On the face of it the trip was a daily grind; from Manchester to Sheffield and back again by train over The Pennines – the ‘backbone’ of England – but in actual fact I loved it because it gave me a protected bubble of...
