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...How To Improve Your Lists With Contexts (Video Podcast) Ep. 67
In today’s episode, Robert and Todd discuss the simplest way to super charge the effectiveness of your to do lists. watch time: 31:13 mins Subscribe to the Podcast [music] 0:00:05.5 Robert Peake: Welcome everyone to this Change Your Game with GTD Podcast. My...How To Reduce Distractions In The Workplace
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!
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...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,...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...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...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,...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...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 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...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...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!
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.
Telltale Signs Your Lists Are Over-Complicated (And How To Fix Them!) (Video Podcast)
While Getting Things Done® (GTD®) may not officially be regarded as ‘time management’, being able to manage your time well is a prerequisite for an effective GTD practice.
Todd Brown and Robert Peake take a deeper look at the aspects of time management that contribute to better work and life management.