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November 14, 2006

Sharing GTD with key people in your life

Many of you who have been through my seminar have heard me talk about how GTD works in my relationship with my husband John. I'm lucky in that John embraces this stuff as much as I do and many of the systems in our house and lives are GTD based. A couple of things that we do include:

Inboxes at home - an indispensable tool for handling the back-and-forth mundane stuff that doesn't need a conversation
Agenda lists - to track what's going on for us right now (I have one for him, he has one for me)
Great filing system which we both use and trust for our personal home files

It's a treat for me when John is able to come with me on a work trip. Last week he came along for my Seattle>Vancouver trip:

I know it's not always easy to get someone to do GTD. They've got to see value in it for themselves. For us, the value is that the mundane and daily grind of life is handled by simple systems so our lives can be as fun and free as possible.

If you've been able to get your spouse/partner/family on any GTD systems, how did you do that? I'm sure others would love to hear what worked.

Posted by Kelly at November 14, 2006 07:27 AM