by Todd Brown | 14 Feb 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog, Videos |
There are many benefits to tidying up and decluttering our lives, as Marie Kondo has successfully demonstrated. But what is missing? Marie Kondo focuses on physical clutter, but many of us are struggling more with mental clutter. What if we took the basic idea of...
by Miles Seecharan | 7 Feb 2019 | Capture, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Planning |
Lamb jalfrezi, chicken korma, mutton biryani… while the rest of the world was going vegan last month (a.k.a. ‘Veganuary’), there was a defiant outbreak of meat-based curry-making taking place chez moi. The spark for these culinary adventures was the lovely new...
by James Harwood | 30 Jan 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Engage, James Harwood's Blog, Team |
How easy it is to feel smug, you’re up and running with GTD®. You’re completing a Weekly Review®, your ‘ins’ are at zero, your lists are in order, higher horizons aligned and you’re looking through your ‘waiting for’ list to see who you can chase to prove your system...
by Edward Lamont | 24 Jan 2019 | Capture, Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Planning, Weekly Review |
I wasn’t planning to set any goals for this year. Many areas of my life are in reasonable shape as we start the year, so I thought I’d cut myself some slack and had resolved not to be quite so resolute with my targets. It turns out it isn’t that simple. After four-ish...
by guest | 10 Jan 2019 | Blog, Capture, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing |
Written by Kelly Forrister; Senior Coach and Presenter at the David Allen Company. I’ve been practicing and teaching David Allen’s productivity methods for over 25 years. I consider myself pretty organised and minimalist in the way I live (so much so that someone...
by James Harwood | 4 Jan 2019 | Capture, Clarify, James Harwood's Blog |
Those of us who work with our email inboxes regularly ‘at zero’ are aware of the many benefits this brings. It is therefore a surprise, when trying to encourage others to do the same, that their first response is often along the lines of “I don’t care that I have...
by Miles Seecharan | 22 Nov 2018 | Capture, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Planning |
Yum. Sea Bass or T-Bone? Delightful options for sure, but as I pondered the choice, I felt uneasy. I was sitting in my living room browsing the online menu for a meal that was still six weeks away and, along with everyone else in our party, I’d been emailed the link...
by Edward Lamont | 7 Nov 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise, Planning |
Near the end of a seminar someone will often say some version of the following: “I like the sound of what you are proposing, but I think it will be difficult”, in a tone that makes it clear that they feel it shouldn’t be. Here is my take: given the benefits GTD®...
by Todd Brown | 2 Nov 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Todd Brown's Blog |
This week, I talk about how obsession with certain parts of the GTD® practice may not always necessarily be the most productive approach.
by Miles Seecharan | 18 Oct 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Planning |
No part of me is more English than my need for a regular cup of tea. So, with the end of the webinar that I’d been delivering close at hand, my attention was turning to a hard-earned cuppa. For this reason, perhaps, I was caught slightly off-guard by the excellent...
by Robert Peake | 11 Oct 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Engage, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
‘Seriously? They’re posting business-critical information as a reply to a private Facebook thread?’ I was as incredulous as my client at this lack of basic ‘communication hygiene’ – expecting colleagues to find what they needed to...
by Miles Seecharan | 20 Sep 2018 | Capture, Career, Clarify, Horizons of Focus, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise |
In a couple of days I’ll wave goodbye to my daughter. As my eldest child, she’s the first to head off to university and after that we’ll be separated by a long day of driving to East Anglia, much of it staring at the featureless flatlands of Lincolnshire or stuck...
by Edward Lamont | 6 Sep 2018 | Capture, Ed Lamont's Blog |
“What do you see?” The question took me a bit by surprise. I was just settling in for lunch with my friend Dan. Pleasantries had been exchanged, and I was scanning the menu when he’d reached his wrist across the table and held it where I couldn’t miss it. “Uhm, your...
by Robert Peake | 18 Jul 2018 | Capture, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
“All that is very well,” answered Candide, “but let us cultivate our garden.” -Voltaire I was fuming. I could feel the blood surging up to my head, fuelling a litany of judgmental thoughts. Brexit. Trump. That maniac on the M1. Something had...
by Miles Seecharan | 28 Jun 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Planning |
Ever heard of desire paths? Although the name might conjure an image of the trail of underclothes between the sofa and the bed in a Hollywood love scene, the reality is slightly more prosaic (not to mention less fun). According to Wikipedia, desire paths are...
by Robert Peake | 21 Jun 2018 | Capture, Clarify |
If you want to know what clean edges in a system looks like, take a peep through a microscope. Life, in its simplest form, is about integrity. When the walls of a cell break down, the cell is finished – returning to the primordial elements that once made it up....
by guest | 1 Jun 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Planning |
Written by Moni Danner. When new parents return to work after maternity/paternity leave, they are often noticeably more efficient than before. Managing family life, especially with small children, forces us into a tighter temporal corset, and that demands pretty...
by Robert Peake | 24 May 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
A striking advertisement for dental hygiene depicts people whose eyes are bleeding, pointing out that if any part of one’s body besides one’s gums were to bleed, they would seek immediate medical attention. Likewise, I believe that if people were able to...
by guest | 22 May 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Employee engagement, Leadership, Organise, Planning, Talent development, Team |
Andrew Ward, Director of Optimum Advisory, is a business and HR leader, organisation development consultant, and amateur GTD® evangelist. He has worked in and for organisations large and small, multinational and domestic, in the UK and US and in industries including...
by Edward Lamont | 18 Apr 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise, Uncategorized |
True story: A few months back, a well-dressed Italian woman in her early sixties walks into a local Sicilian cafe in search of a panettone for Christmas. Having surveyed a ceiling sagging under the weight of dozens of them, suspended from festive ribbons, she...
by Miles Seecharan | 5 Apr 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Engage, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise |
Are you lazy? If you’re reading this, probably not. As my colleague Todd Brown explains over on our YouTube channel, GTD® tends to attract people who are already motivated and successful. To paraphrase Steve Jobs, GTDers are usually folks who are looking to put a dent...
by Edward Lamont | 22 Mar 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Creativity, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise |
I was at a dinner party recently where the conversation – implausibly – turned to ‘paperwork’. We’d exhausted topics like real-estate trends (luxury – in; affordable – out), our ongoing Circus Brexitus, and the ambient geo-political madness. Things had clearly gotten...
by guest | 20 Feb 2018 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Leadership, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing, Talent development |
Clare Ridall manages the strategic communications, planning and policy development for Library & Student Support Services at Sheffield Hallam University, leading a team of seven. Her role as Head of Management Services covers a broad range of service delivery for...
by Robert Peake | 1 Feb 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Planning, Robert Peake's Blog |
In their newfound enthusiasm for discovering the freedom and relief of getting everything out of their head, journeymen GTD® practitioners can fall into the trap of believing that small lists are inherently bad. Indeed, David Allen, creator of the Getting Things Done®...
