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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To--List. I'm your host, Eric Fisher,

and this is the show where I talk to the people behind the productivity. This week, we are revisiting a conversation I had with David Allen, author and originator of the getting things done

mentality and the book Getting Things Done. GTD is a common productivity starting point for many people, but often some people in the productivity space, as well as those that read the book, kind of move on from it, unfortunately.

And so in this conversation, David and I talk about some of those biggest objections or hiccups people have in terms of the GTD methodology. And that's not to say that

other pieces to the productivity puzzle can't be attached to GTD. But I just think personally,

GTD is a great way of either starting out or moving in and or further deeper into anything

else you may already have. It may complete some of the

missing puzzle piece of things you've cobbled together already in terms of getting rid of

your overwhelm and giving you focus and clarity and confidence and helping you often organize

and actually do that homework that needs to be done in order to dig deeper into what is the next task

necessary for these projects that you've got in front of you.

Because often that's what's keeping you from doing anything, is not knowing what's next

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