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GTD and Zen This is a question that I would love to present directly to David Allen. I have been reading several books on Zen Buddhism over the last number of years, and it is astonishing how closely David’s system meshes in with the principles of Zen. This is no coincidence of course, as...

I have a question on what I believe to a capturing issue. I am still relatively new to GTD, I have a Palm, just started synching to Outlook. For the past 2 years I have used the Franklin Covey system. I am in sales and commonly have to take notes on what happens or needs to happens with customers....

I volunteer at the middle school to teach a time management class. I love this method because it is tech neutral. I will be teaching this method to the kids along with other information from Julie Morgenstern. Does anyone have any tips or experience working on this with kids? I think if they...

Maybe because I have more deadlines now, I am finding that many of my next actions need to be done by specific days, sometimes as many as 20 discrete tasks that are distributed between 5 or 6 contexts. Since I am trying to eliminate the "prioritized to do list" habit (which was often an "ignore...

I will be starting a new job soon. I will remain in the accountancy profession at a senior managerial level. I will try to arrange things so that I have an interval of a week between jobs. I intend to re-read GTD in full over this week in order to ensure that I implement it properly in my new...

When I'm in my office, I feel overwhelmed with all the next actions I could potentially do next. If I don't have anything on my hard landscape, that means I'm free to do @Computer, @Office, @Calls, whatever. I have 273 tasks right now and with out prioritizing, how do I know which ones I...

I had reduced my list of projects to under 10 but realised from 'defining projects' on your website that I'm missing the point - they are not really a key to things that need to be done, just a collective bucket. Hmmmm, must read the book again. My problem - if I separate each bucket into the...

I have a Boss who would like a weekly status report (just started a new position will eventually go to a monthly status report) When I first read GTD I came away with do not assign due dates unless you can committ to them and they are hard and fast. (It causes stress and creates extra work) ...

The GTD method includes categorising next actions by context. But to what extent does anyone out there actively manage his or her contexts? For example, if I have next actions for my home computer, I should actively plan a session at my home computer, or they will never get done. If I have a...

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Hi, I was wondering if calendaring time for all of my projects might not be a bad idea. In other words, during the work week I would schedule between 30 and 60 minutes of calendar time for each project. In the evenings and on the weekends, I would do the same for my home projects. This means...

On the press-links section of this site, the last item describes GTD as “an innovative way of organizing and structuring a "to-do" list that groups activities by contexts rather than time frames”. If you’ve got a project with a deadline in three week’s time, how can you make sure that, when you...

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I'm new to GTD. I've got a pre-GTD "To Do" item that I'm trying to convert to the Project/Action model that I just can't figure out. Any advice would be appreciated. ToDo = Clean House. This is a recurring chore that I don't see as part of a project. It is not really a one-off item, because...

Hi, I'm new to GTD - just listened to it on my audible Otis last weekend. Just one question that was nagging me while i was listening. what do you do with next actions for creative, time intensive projects? I mean, how can I break it down further - or generally speed up and be more productive? ...

I had an interesting experience today while training in a triathlon in Santa Barbara. I was about 25 miles into a bike ride, and realized that my “cycling form” was completely off. I was working “too hard” and not keeping up with my training group. I realized that I had been carrying an expectation...