482: David Allen Returns with the 10 Moves to Stress-Free Productivity
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
David Allen provides an approachable overview of his legendary Getting Things Done (GTD) system.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) GTD in a nutshell.
2) The saving power of an external brain.
3) Two power questions for prioritizing.
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— ABOUT DAVID —
David Allen is an international best-selling author who is widely recognized as the world’s leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. He wrote the international best-seller Getting Things Done, which has been published in over 28 languages. TIME magazine heralded it as “the defining self-help business book of its time.” He and his wife Kathryn run the David Allen Company, which oversees the certification academy and quality standards for Global Partners offering Getting Things Done courses and coaching around the world.
• David’s Book: “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”
• David’s Workbook: “The Getting Things Done Workbook: 10 Moves to Stress-Free Productivity”
• David’s Website: GettingThingsDone.com
• David on Twitter: @gtdguy
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking” by Oliver Burkeman
• Prior Episode Episode 015: David Allen, The World’s Leading Authority on Productivity
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 482 |
| 0:22.1 | with the triumphant return of David Allen, yes that David Allen |
| 0:26.2 | of getting things done or GTD fame, he has some additional perspective on his legendary system and how to make it all the more |
| 0:33.9 | approachable for folks. I've had requests in the survey from Mark from J Bass |
| 0:40.0 | from Graham and from a few people who didn't share their names that's fine that you want to hear more from David Allen well we got him so I'm excited to have that to share and and once again boy whenever I chat with him or review his stuff, boy, just things get clearer. |
| 0:56.3 | Anxiety slips away and I am getting more in the groove of understanding what I want to engage |
| 1:02.3 | with, what I want to not engage with and feeling good about it, |
| 1:05.2 | having more of a mind-like water, as he says. |
| 1:07.8 | So good stuff. |
| 1:08.8 | You'll learn one, GTD in a nutshell, two, the saving power of an external brain and three two power questions for |
| 1:15.7 | prioritizing. So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the |
| 1:18.7 | links to items we've referenced it's on over at all submit your job.com |
| 1:21.8 | slash F- eight two. |
| 1:23.4 | Now here's David's story. |
| 1:24.3 | David Allen is an international best-selling author |
| 1:26.7 | who is widely recognized |
| 1:27.8 | as the world's leading expert on personal |
| 1:29.8 | and organizational productivity. |
| 1:31.6 | He wrote the international bestseller |
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