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Well, I've read the book and attempted to implement GTD in my life but instead of getting things done I find I'm spending too much time feeling overwhelmed and worrying about small details (such as how to define a particular next action which I can get done in the time I spend worrying about it!!)....
I'm setting up my GTD system this weekend. And I'm stuck on how. I get the concepts, but there's a few things that I'm not sure about. I wish I could see a working example so I could see how all the details mesh together. I don't want to use outlook, for one I'm a mac user, for two I like to see...
Just thought I'd mention this in case someone would like give it a try: the Uncalendar www.uncalendar.com Although I'm now in the early stages of using the PlannerPad after years of using F/C and Daytimer, I did use the Uncalendar for a while and liked some of its features: (weekly spread, space...
I work for my employer 9-5 and also have my own personal projects that relate to v.important 30k+ goals e.g. starting a business. Each day my NA lists show personal actions alongside work actions - I am too honest to work on personal projects during work time YET 9- 5 is my high energy time. Does...
Someone showed me his installation of Maximizer, a CRM, $130, and I'm wondering how it works with the GTD process. Looks like it would be a good GTD tool, but how would it work if you use different computers, work and home, or two different personal computers? It seems to be a good tool for sales...
Davidco, Just wondering what your plans are for future public seminars? I've been checking your web site but have not seen any dates posted.
GTD Roles Understanding and implementing GTD is simple if you picture yourself playing five distinct roles at each stage of Collect, Process, Organize, Review and Do DA pointed out in his book that he found it very helpful to separate the five stages as he moved through his day; and...
I'm a student having to study with between two to seven books totalling in around 500 to 2500 pages per exam. I feel it is difficult to set out on a venture like this - I have tried various approaches in the many years of my education: I've tried to take the total amount of pages, divide them...
I have recently migrated my email setup to an exchange server, I have my reference folders in a PST file in my work computer. I would like to be able to process my email while using exchange remotely. My challenge is that I can't file an email from the inbox while exchange to later migrate to my...
OK, I know that 20,000ft is "Areas of Responsibility", and "30,000" is 1-2 year goals, but honestly, is there that much of a difference between the two? How do you handle the difference between the two levels? Is there a distinction between them?
I've always had trouble with the holy phrase "Next Action," and I recently realized why. "Act" refers to the deed, while "action" refers more to the doing, which seems to be why DA calls them Actions in the first place. But Acts are a tiny bit more abstract , the little incremental things I want to...
It looks like the members list has now been updated to include all members, good job! CosmoGTD, TesTeq and Jason Womack appear to be our most prolific posters. Not counting that Anonymous guy...
I'm reworking my system. I was using Outlook but am switching to Paper. (I won't go into why now.) I've been thinking about Projects and Someday/Maybes. One gem I've gleaned from GTD Fast is that you may want more than one someday/maybe list. For example, I'd like a "Dream" someday/maybe...
Has anyone else happened across any real-life fans of GTD? I find this forum invaluable for practical tips but also as a kind of support system for all of us using GTD, as I've never knowingly met anyone who uses it. Last week I was talking with potential clients, and the guy running the meeting...
Despite setting goals in some of the key areas in my life – goals which are to the obvious benefit of my family – I have found that over the last few weekends I am totally stressed out in their company. To extend the runway metaphor, I feel like a plane trying to take off when the wheels are...
What are the differences between the white paper and the add-in, besides $60? What am I getting for $60 more? Paying $60 more isn't a problem if there are definite pros to buying the add-in. A couple questions: 1. How hard is it to manually configure outlook? 2. How time consuming is it?...
I can do the initial aspects of processing very well, although I find that it takes a lot of time to do the thinking up front. And, I can do a weekly review very well, although it takes a long time and never feels really complete. But, after I have all the information set out on my lists, I just...
Saw this in today's Wall Street Journal Online: Feeling Stupid? Blame Your Computer Talk about unintended consequences: the emails, text messages and instant messages that supposedly make people better-connected can also make them more stupid, according to a new study. In a project sponsored...
OK Im getting back on the GTD wagon and wrestling with the same issue that I've always struggled with--I guess it is really the priority issue: Leaving out must do today and...someday maybe there is a spectrum of next actions from ones that needs to be done...sometime soon to ones that I need to...
I recently took a second look at Sally McGhee's book, Take Back Your Life. I started comparing it to David's corpus. Sally has us schedule NAs; David doesn't. Sally's writing for Microsoft Press and teaches GTD for Outlook; David provides us with general principles. Sally works top-down, like...
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