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I've been trying to do GTD for a few months now and am having mixed results. This is partly due to things happening in my personal life, but I have also been wondering who GTD best applies to. I fall into the procrastinator category but wonder if the system is better for the hard worker is merely...
A criticism I've heard of GTD is that it emphasizes urgency over importance. And while I totally agree with Dave's argument about 'intuition' - and i personally find it a waste of time to assign priorities to everything - I do seem to be falling into this trap, namely: I do what's easiest and...
Here's my "organized" plan for my weekly review. I wanted to post it and get any comments or suggestions. I did it so that I could try to avoid getting "bogged down" DOING or ORGANIZING during the review. That is, I hit project "X", and notice it's a mess. Rather than write down Next...
Guys, I have a palm Vx and slowly am getting up to speed using the GTD method. Currently I do the following. Made a list of all the pojects I have open in a memo category. In this category I have the projects as individual memo's with the next actions listed in there. The immediate next...
hi all, thanks for this super forum. I read GTD about a year ago and implemented a few 'tricks' but now i think i'm ready to do it for real. i spent today trying to do first phase of 'collecting' but i think i messed up and ended up purge-and-organizing, spending too long on everything and...
We've been carrying stuff in our heads for so long, how do you know you've gotten it all out and into the system?
Hello, I've been walking around with the GTD book under my arm for about two weeks now. Needless to say, I think it is awesome, and mirrors the way I had been starting to approach tasks and projects, but much more comprehensively. I have a handful of niggly questions and since it is on my NA...
Has anyone seen the David Allen book in e-book format. It would be a great book to have on the PDA to read during those downtimes....
Sorry for mentioning the P word, but I did a little experiment with it yesterday. My list of things to be done in work is on excel. The spreadsheet runs as far as line 103. I generally have a lot of freedom of choice as to what to do next, but that has had the effect of frequently putting me...
I'm working my way through the humongous, but interesting thread on goal setting. I'm not sure if this issue is in there are not, but I thought I'd ask anyway: If you are a goal-setter, how do you you manage your goals? Do you differentiate between goals and regular projects? How do you manage...
Hi I just wanted to throw the subject of planning out for discussion. Specifically, I’m talking about small projects, which can be carried out by me, or with an assistant. I don’t think the planning notes would be much more than a page of bullet points. I imagine that “waiting for” and...
In my current role, a huge amount of general mail comes into my in-tray. I also get a lot of out-of-date stuff from around the office that no one wants to deal with … keep or dump? Current or Archive? Might come in useful for ….? In true GTD fashion, I constantly try to empty the tray. I find...
The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) can be learned by anyone by reading http://www.emofree.com/. I have been using EFT for more than three years. I have found it useful for my own personal development. But last week something happened which really opened my eyes to the extraordinary power of...
In 1986 I took a class from David Allen when he was still recommending a particular personal planner and I have been using it ever since, that is until it was stolen last month. Since it is too expensive for me to replace at this time, I am looking someone who might have a time design paper...
Hi, I'm reading the GTD book but, I'm confused :? as I'm unable to understand what kind of folders and file cabinets David Allen is recommending to use... I have the book in English but, I'm not a native english speaker & I live in Europe... so, I feel blocked as I'm not able to understand...
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I figured I get so much out of this list I should give what I can. So here's something my wife read when she was in seventh grade in a book about King Arthur, and Merlin tells young Arthur something to the effect of "when you're depressed, learn something new." (i could have the reference, the...
I've been using the GTD system for a about 4 months now and it's helped so much! But, now I realize how little I focus on important things. I have 580 next actions, with 223 in Someday/Maybe. That means 357 things that need to be done ASAP. I have a master project list and all the NA are tied...
Is anyone else heading to Vermont on Monday (3/8/04) for David Allen's one day "Mastering Workflow" seminar at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters? I'm guessing the seminar will be similar to day one of "Managing Workflow, Projects, and Priorities." I'd love to attend the 2 day sometime, but for now,...
I've been using GTD for a few months now and have an idea about Waiting For items. I'm finding that my Waiting For list is sort of a black hole, although I do check it during my weekly review. I'm considering mostly doing away with the category and making things more action-oriented by deciding...
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