by Edward Lamont
est. reading time: 5:15 mins When a team member goes off sick with burnout, most organisations respond admirably. In many countries the person’s job is protected by law, and beyond that some companies will provide support for their rehabilitation. When the time comes...
by Todd Brown
watch time: 10:37 mins It’s almost second nature to think of our digital world when we talk about the GTD methodology®, but let’s focus on all the physical...
by Blanka Petyusne Szecsenyi
est. reading time: 5:07 mins I moved to Florida. Although this is a simple sentence, there was hardly anything simple about making it happen. We wanted to leave our home in Budapest. We already had a plan to move back to our previous home in the UK, which kept...
by Gundula Welti
est. reading time: 3:45 mins Brrrriiing ! The distinct ring-tone melody of my Thermomix® kitchen gadget rips me out of my reveries. As I walk over to stop the – somewhat annoying – ringing, I muse about the fact that I actually don’t need a...
by Marcus Ramtohul
est. reading time: 3:28 mins Practice Getting Things Done (GTD®) for long enough, deliver training about it for long enough, and you get accustomed to a lot of repeating questions/problems – What’s the best tool? Why not just do ‘x’? How do I get my husband/boss/child...
by Adrian Schilling
est. reading time: 6:45 mins Part of our training as GTD® trainers is to help our delegates get to zero and experience firsthand what it is like to have no more backlog. What seemed to me to be the most exciting part of the training often appeared to the delegates to...
by Blanka Petyusne Szecsenyi
est. reading time: 6 mins Starting with “No” In the process of implementing GTD® one of the first things people start to appreciate is the context list. The way all tasks can be captured when they come up and have every next action clarified and organised, but instead...
by Miles Seecharan
est. reading time: 7 mins “Are you winning, Miles?” The person asking is a burly, retired Mancunian who owns the plot next to mine at the allotment. He has a penchant for crooning ballads at the top of his voice as he cultivates the cabbages, cauliflowers...
by Marcus Ramtohul
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,...
by Adrian Schilling
Have you tried everything to avoid getting distracted at work? No notifications, no internet, and still not feeling as productive? You might be missing a key approach!
by Adrian Schilling
It’d been 4 years since I’d switched from Mac to PC and I was excited to come back to Mac and to dive into a new tool only existing on Mac. The promise was great : The tool would connect emails, notes, meetings, tasks, contacts, places, colleagues,...
by Robert Peake
You’re already a big fan of list, and to-lists but somehow still falling behind and feeling overwhelmed? We have the key to help solve this: the one list you should make...
by James Harwood
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...
by Robert Peake
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...
by Miles Seecharan
It wasn’t a good look for a teacher of the art of stress-free productivity – sweating bullets as I balanced unsteadily at Gate 43 in Lisbon Airport with an open laptop clutched in one hand and the other trying to open a passport on the right page. I uttered some...
by James Harwood
Isn’t it odd that we talk of ‘being in front of our computers’, rather than our computers ‘being in front of us’? Does this turn of phrase indicate that we feel our computers are in the seat of power? I recently asked a prospective coaching client “what do you do for...
by James Harwood
When we all started with GTD® we had to build our GTD system from scratch. This meant that you, like everyone, had to spend a lot of time with Capturing all your stuff, then Clarifying and Organising this into your tool of choice. These first three steps can therefore...
by Edward Lamont
Every day around the world, companies large and small are bought or sold. Huge sums change hands in that process, but also around that process. Because of the amounts involved, an entire industry of specialists has developed to facilitate – and earn from – these...
by James Harwood
The world has changed a lot since David Allen developed his methodology and wrote the 2001 first edition of “Getting Things Done ®”: Filofaxes have been mostly replaced by laptops, Palm Pilots by smartphones, faxes by emails, and too many meetings by far too many...
by Edward Lamont
I’ve been reading a book on human movement concurrently with a book on the lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle of a productivity expert, for sure. These days, the fittest of us get something like 300 minutes – or 6 hours – of movement...
by James Harwood
Don’t you find it odd, that although nearly everyone has grasped the fact that using a calendar is a useful way to organise their time-based commitments and they use one regularly, including sending invites, syncing them between their computers and phones, checking...
by Miles Seecharan
Question: What do the following have in common; Buying a bible Selling fish and chips Shooting Welshmen in Hereford Answer: They are all things that used to be illegal if you did them on a Sunday (although it was legal to shoot Welshmen in the 1400s as long as you did...
by Edward Lamont
At the beginning of the pandemic, when the experts first started talking about mental health, I had no idea what they were talking about. “It’s a virus, not a mental illness”, I thought. I had no clue. A little over a year later, I know a bit more about what the...
by Monika Danner
Monika Danner has worked in corporate HR and leadership roles for more than 15 years. She has been a GTD® practitioner since 2014 and works as a certified GTD trainer for Next Action Partners in Germany. Remember buffets? It’s been a while since they’ve been...