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Get More Personal Stuff Done To Be More Productive at Work
If you’re being asked to do more work than before, with less time for your personal life, you’ll relate to this excerpt from Todd Brown’s blog post for Next Action Associates. Want your people to be more productive in the office? Help them get more...
3 Common Reasons Why People Flounder
This is from a recent issue of the “Productive Living” newsletter. Hi Folks, The major complaint about our Getting Things Done methodology is not that it doesn’t work or that the principles aren’t sound—it’s that people don’t work the system. I’ve...
Productivity? -- 28% of Work Week on Email
A report from the McKinsey Global Institute says that interaction workers spend 28% of their work week reading and answering email. Your response may be, “No way—only 28%?” Or you may say, “Wow, that seems like a lot.” The study...
Too Many Next Actions?
Right or wrong directions...? What to do next...? Too many next actions? David Allen weighs in… Question: I have done a good job of getting all my commitments in Outlook tasks and out of my head, but here is my dilemma: I have written down every...
More on GTD & iPhone
Well, my previous GTD & iPhone post was by far the most popular post in the history of my blog. What...my previous 4 years of crafting pithy posts, witty GTDisms and David Allen inner-circle wisdoms didn't do it for ya?? It was the iPhone that...
A day with no new input
Let's pretend that today is a day where you will get no new input. No email will arrive. No one will try to chat online with you. No newspapers will land on your doorstep. No colleagues will want to meet or talk to you. Your phones will not ring...
@BrainToast
It's 4pm on a Friday. You want to keep cranking through stuff (at least until the boss leaves) but you know you're mentally fried and know you really don't have any business doing important things or talking to important people. That's a perfect...
Rolling up your hoses when you're not fighting fires
We were in a staff meeting the other day discussing some of the finer points of David Allen's 3-Fold nature of work. Part of the Doing phase, the 3-Fold nature describes how you spend your time: Doing Pre-defined Work (choosing from what's already...
Easy interruptions to eliminate
While you can't necessarily stop your colleagues from interrupting you, you can tell your tools not to. Start with email notifiers. It's nearly impossible for people to not notice email notifiers when they appear on your screen or make a sound. I...
Dealing with interruptions
Interruptions are a fact of life in every job and in every company. It's one of the most common things people tell me drags on their productivity. Formany of us, our jobs require us to handle work as it appears, so the only choice really becomes to...
Step away from the inbox
A few times lately in GTD classes, people have asked me for recommendations on how often I process email. There are some approaches out there that suggest people only check email once a day. Sounds pretty extreme to me, especially if your world...
Handling meeting notes
Someone recently asked David Allen for his best tips, tricks and processes for handling meeting and conversation notes. Since this is a common question we tend to get, I thought I would share David's reply: "I process most meeting notes into our...
