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Hi all, I'd be very interested in getting in touch with any Danish GTD'ers if any of you spend your time here as well? If you're a Danish GTD'er, please reply here or send me a quick e-mail at lars.henriksen@gmail.com to get in touch as I'd be very interested in sharing experiences and also...

I’ve been doing GTD for years now but I can honestly say it’s always been a bit of geek obsession and never really a super productive system. I’ve always been thinking about the system and it’s never been automatic. The system has been working me and I haven’t been working the system. I’ve...

Best post on this: "I think you should have the discipline to make the four criteria work for you rather than being controlled by them. When there are important, high priority, next actions that are key steps in achieving your 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 ft and above goals, you simply cannot...

Do you use any routine for your afterwork hours? Mine is: - Come home - Sports (not every day though) - Dinner - Home work (1-2 next actions) - Family time

Dear friend, after years of GTD I'm now experiencing something complementary at GTD. Some friends gave me advise about Linenberger so I read his free approach book on Internet and I got it. I'm trying it both on my toodledo and my android ultimate to do list and I feel fully satisfied. I...

I've noticed I'm having trouble with projects that repeat each week but don't have a particular due date, for instance: "Blog twice a week for my client." It doesn't have to happen on a particular day, but should happen twice each week. I usually wait until I feel like writing or see something that...

If I split weekly review in parts and do it everyday then what do i review once a week? I use omnifocus on ipad and there is a built in review mode and I can set a review interval for each project, for some projects it is once a week, for some it is once a month and etc. I dont have to...

I am looking for a suggestion on how to best track time off by my staff. Once I grant their request for time off, it is recorded in the individual's attendance planner. After that, I'm often forgetful the first day of their vacation that they are out of the office. Would putting a note on...

I'm very organized. I write everything down and organize. When I finish one next action I put the next one into the system using one of my inboxes. My projects are mostly in sales field so there's no evident plan of future actions available. It means I always have (and can) to think through a next...

Hello, Can anyone point me to a virtual or personal assistant who knows GTD? I'm in Atlanta, so anyone local to me would be great, but not required. Thanks, Joe

Sometimes I can't go deep into DOING because I'm stuck with how I need to do something. For example, I promised a friend of mine to promote him to a new position in a company-partner. I had no success with that so put 'Call Tom: tell him I had no success with a new promotion". When I see such a...

Hi there, I'm really stuggling with my GTD implementation. I have just gone through all my "stuff" a few days ago and since then have felt the most incredible amount of stress and anxiety of my life. I am pretty sure that I have gone from "unconscious incompetence" to "conscious incompetence"....

I finished cleaning up my first time inbox. It does feel good. I have a clean and up to date waiting, maybe and next action list. But today, I cannot get myself to do any of them. I look at them and I dread them all. I feel blah. Not even the really easy ones that would take me less than 5...

I’ve been doing GTD a while now and lately I’ve started to realize that I really don’t like P&O. It’s not that I think P&O is a bad idea or anything, I just don’t like doing it: I postpone it, put it off, and a few days ago literally got nothing done all day because I didn’t want to start other...

I currently keep journal entries, notes, and emails in very generic folders and just search for what I need. I was suprised to find this works just fine, particularly since I started adding Freeform tags like "©unix". However, I keep everything else in a endless series of hierarchical folders. I...

Do you limit your working day to have time for your family and hobbies? I do limit my day by leaving the office at 5pm. Then I have commute time for 1.5hrs when I still answer my work calls. And I even answer my calls after that time. I thought I'm just changing places not limiting my work hours...

My @Work list has 43 items. My @Waiting list has 128 items. The lists is separated further into @Iphone, @MacOnline, @MacOffline and @Office. Though they are separated I can do any of them while at work. It's a rare case when I don't have access to internet or I'm not in the office. I decided...

Hello all, I couldn't wait to come & tell my story! I have been a fan of GTD for quite some time. Though I consider myself very intelligent, I could not get an understanding of GTD! Each time I tried to read it, it was like a foreign language! Countless times I've googled for information on GTD....