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i really like gtd for the short term work, but how can i handle long-term commitments? what i mean is that i very often take some tasks which has to be fullfilled "somewhere" in the future, but then i will be overloaded by too much commitents, so how do i know if i will have time for a specific...

Hi, I have already read the book some time ago. I am currently listening to the fast track CDs. If you have not already done so, put "buy fast track CD" on your errands list ASAP. Listening to those CDs is much more impressive then reading the book. I am listening each CD twice and have done so...

New to this board and to the GTD process. I've been thinking about organizing my Next Actions by sales opportunity (i.e., a specific sales opportunity w/ a current customer or new prospect) and was wondering what others are doing. My sense is that defining each sales opportunity as a project...

Does anyone have a list of the names of individuals who do blogs at the davidco.com website? Via Google, I've only found blogs for Elizabeth, David and Jason. Are there more? If so, is there a webpage with links to all the GTD Blogs? Thank you.

Ok, I've nearly finished Davids book. I've gone through the initial collection (an experience in itself) and set up Bonsai on my Palm. What I didn't quite grasp is this: Anything that comes my way gets placed in my In-Basket. When do I deal with that stuff? It can't all wait until my weekly review...

Sometimes I get the Collect/Process/Organize bug, the symptoms of which include endless tweaking of the collection tools, trying out new software for organizing the endless list of NAs and Projects, and generally not spending enough time on Reviewing and Doing. "Sometimes" might be and...

I discovered GTD only recently (via 43folders). Last week the harddisk of my ibook crashed and is being repaired right now and I took the chance (I'm self employed and very much dependend on it, so I got an unsuspected timeframe I otherwise wouldn't have had) to read the book and start off with...

Does anyone have any advice on tracking hours worked on specific projects, goals reached and stuff like that? We're going to very specific metric-oriented evaluations for my organization, including time spent on processes as well as our former big picture goals, like how money was raised. For...

I'm just implementing the GTD system this weekend, and it feels great. I have a question about filing, though. My wife and I have kept a usable filing system for a while now, but it's messy. I would like to start my own filing system for reference and important documents, but I don't know if...

I'm very new to GTD and am doing kind of a rolling implementation. I'm a little confused about Next Action lists. If I have to make calls for something home related and I have to make lots of calls for work related issues, do all of these next actions go on one @CALLS list? Also, I'll be...

I have a hard time focusing on what needs to be done many times. GTD has been an enormous boon, because in the past not only would I have to get around to doing what needed to be done, I had to figure out what that is. My problem is now that I find myself burning a lot of time just cruising the...

Folks, David recommends creating an all-day appointment to contain next actions that need to be begun/completed on a certain day, thereby keeping the calendar clear of anything other than hard events. I find that it is harder in Outlook to create an all-day calendar appointment than it is to...

Is the stress of writing it all down really that much less than the stress that results from not writing it all down? This is one area (besides collecting processing, organizing, reviewing and doing) that I have a hard time with...