This train of thought started as I stood in the changing room at the gym, showered and ready to get dressed for work. “How could I be so stupid?.” Staring at a gym bag that contains NO clean underwear, and…
The benefits of productivity might seem obvious, even to those relatively new to what some might call “the movement.” There’s: Increased output Reduced time-wasting Improved efficiency Better organisation But the stand-out benefit for me, and the thing that has taken…
It’s been some time since I wrote my counterpoint to Bojan’s article on quitting GTD, and in that time I’ve come to know him a great deal better, to respect his opinion, and I consider him a friend. However when…
I’m on holiday from work this week, so it’s an opportunity to spend time with the family and get stuff done around the house. To be GTD-nerdy about it, it’s time to ditch the “work” context and hit the “home”…
Are you delivering outcomes, or just outputs? Last week was a particularly busy one, as I tried desparately to clear my pile of work down ahead of a week’s holiday. As I found myself shedding my morning gym visit to…
I had a lightbulb moment today. I was trialling the Emergent Task Planner, a paper-based task-management system recommended to me by Matt McCabe[1] in response to my recent GTD Reality Check.[2] For those not familar with the ETP, I would…
I started out on this journey last year as the result of a realisation that I was being pretty chaotic in how I got things done – and that perhaps the techniques I was aware of, but had previously dismissed,…
I wrote a little while ago about ”kryptonite tasks” [1] [2] – the recurring tasks that you always seem to get stuck on. For me it was the process of recording and submitting work expenses, but I’m confident many others…
Contexts are a relatively simple concept, and quite fundamental to GTD. The basic premise is that when processing your list of captured ‘stuff’ and creating actions /projects, you need to consider not only what you need to do, but where…



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