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...
Stop Beating Yourself Up With GTD!
GTD® is meant to create a better workflow and help you achieve greater work life balance – but be careful not to beat yourself up with it! Let’s talk about being a little kinder with yourself and your practice.
Play It Again
There can be a lot of value in re-reading or re-watching something, and today Todd discusses how this can also apply to your GTD...
Working From Home : A New Tool Or A New Approach – Part II
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,...
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...
GTD® And Others? (Video Podcast)
In this week’s podcast episode Robert and Todd discuss how to deal with the people in your life who do not follow GTD principles as part of their work-life balance.
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...
GTD® And Humour (Video Podcast)
In today’s podcast episode, Todd and Robert discuss the lighter side of life, and the GTD® practice.
The List You Should Make To Stop Falling Behind On Projects!
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...
How Long Does It Take To Learn GTD®? (Video Podcast)
In our latest podcast episode, Todd and Robert discuss how long it takes to learn GTD and the fact that this is a journey.
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...
What Is The ROI Of A GTD® System?
A good workflow system is priceless – but perhaps we can quantify the actual Return On Investment in today’s...
Why Doesn’t Everyone Do GTD®?
The success of GTD® in the first two decades since the book was first published is extraordinary. Millions of copies sold, translated into many languages, taught by certified trainers around the world, an established global licenced partner network, and all still...
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...
Who Does GTD®? (Video Podcast)
Sometimes we get so caught up in our day-to-day work, simply ‘doing’, often over-busy and fighting fires – that we lose the bigger picture. We can often find ourselves being driven by the ‘latest and loudest’ rather than the things that will really help us achieve our bigger goals and objectives.
This loss of perspective is normal, but the Getting Things Done® (GTD®) Horizons of Focus model can help ensure that your daily work is aligned to big picture thinking – the higher-level values and your wider purpose.
Todd Brown and Robert Peake discuss the Horizons of Focus model and how it can be used to help drive your work, be guided by your purpose, and see the big picture in everything you do.
Why Are You Still Here?
An action list should be continuously changing. Things get added, things get crossed off as done, and occasionally things get removed because the world changed and they are no longer needed. Above all, it keeps flowing. If there are things on your lists that...
Motivational Streaker
The approach is called ‘Getting Things Done®’. Some of those ‘things’ happen quickly and easily. Some are difficult and take much more patience and persistence. This two-part piece is about how to motivate yourself to go from twinkle in the eye to consistent progress...
Words And Action – The Power Of A Common Language For Productivity (Video Podcast)
Sometimes we get so caught up in our day-to-day work, simply ‘doing’, often over-busy and fighting fires – that we lose the bigger picture. We can often find ourselves being driven by the ‘latest and loudest’ rather than the things that will really help us achieve our bigger goals and objectives.
This loss of perspective is normal, but the Getting Things Done® (GTD®) Horizons of Focus model can help ensure that your daily work is aligned to big picture thinking – the higher-level values and your wider purpose.
Todd Brown and Robert Peake discuss the Horizons of Focus model and how it can be used to help drive your work, be guided by your purpose, and see the big picture in everything you do.
Living The Dream
As the bank holidays disappear in the rear-view mirror here in the UK, a public holiday that we don’t get will be celebrated in the United States in a few days – Martin Luther King day. As my calendar reminded me about this recently I realised that there’s a line from...
Getting Things Unstuck
If there’s something on your list that you’re struggling with, it’s just not moving forward, or you’re feeling stuck – today Todd provides one of the core principles of GTD® as a quick tip to get you moving again.
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...
Are You Being Bullied By Your Inbox? (Video Podcast)
Sometimes we get so caught up in our day-to-day work, simply ‘doing’, often over-busy and fighting fires – that we lose the bigger picture. We can often find ourselves being driven by the ‘latest and loudest’ rather than the things that will really help us achieve our bigger goals and objectives.
This loss of perspective is normal, but the Getting Things Done® (GTD®) Horizons of Focus model can help ensure that your daily work is aligned to big picture thinking – the higher-level values and your wider purpose.
Todd Brown and Robert Peake discuss the Horizons of Focus model and how it can be used to help drive your work, be guided by your purpose, and see the big picture in everything you do.
