Is Your Clutter Exquisite?

Is Your Clutter Exquisite?

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...
Anything Is Possible

Anything Is Possible

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...
The Two Sides Of Your Productive Self

The Two Sides Of Your Productive Self

watch time: 5:45 mins Have you ever thought about the two different sides of your productive self? Perhaps we need to acknowledge the Do-er and the Visionary to find the perfect balance of our own...
How To Control Your Calendar

How To Control Your Calendar

watch time: 6:08 mins If you ever feel like your calendar is managing your time instead of vice versa, then this video is for you! Here is our top tip to control your calendar and, ultimately, your...
The Top Tip For Handling Change At Work

The Top Tip For Handling Change At Work

It can be overwhelming when you are faced with change at work – whether it is new and more responsibilities or new people. But there is one tip, a great exercise, in order to handle this well and help you get through it with clarity and less...
What Would Maverick Do?

What Would Maverick Do?

“I feel the need, the need for speed.” – Top Gun Whisper it, but more than once down the years I’ve heard it said that Tom Cruise is a fan of GTD®. He’d be a great GTD ambassador if it were true. Let’s face it, he gets things done – over 75 movies,...
Why Bother With GTD®?

Why Bother With GTD®?

If you’re just starting out learning “Getting Things Done®”, perhaps having read the book, and now reading this to deepen your understanding, or having been on one of our courses and wanting more of the benefits you’ve already discovered, then it might be worth...
Slow Yew Down

Slow Yew Down

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...
Filo-Email

Filo-Email

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...
Don’t Look At Your Lists!

Don’t Look At Your Lists!

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...
Ring The Alarm

Ring The Alarm

In his book ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Japan’, Pico Iyer describes something unusual that happened on Japanese television during coverage of an important baseball game; “In the final game of the Japan Series, with the entire seven-month season on the line, suddenly, in...
Next (Trans)Action

Next (Trans)Action

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...