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Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

David Allen Shares Getting Things Done Obstacles and Secrets

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

Erik Fisher

Business, Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2012

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

David Allen is the originator of GTD, and founder of David Allen Co. GTD is the shorthand brand for “Getting Things Done,” the groundbreaking work-life management system by David Allen that provides concrete solutions for navigating uncertainty into an integrated system of stress-free productivity.

David is the author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done, and Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life.

David Allen Company is a global training and consulting company, widely considered the leading authority in the fields of organizational and personal productivity.

Covered in this episode:

  • GTD Basics
  • GTD hang ups – common places where the GTD process falls apart for people:
  • Failure to capture
  • Failure to decide the outcome you’re committed to, and the specific action steps
  • Failure to then act (2 minute rule) or capture the action, or reminder to act on in the future
  • Failure to review

    • The one list most people do work well is their calendar.
    • Anything that is a win that instills trust in your system helps.
    • Simple processes to achieve mini wins to trust your system more
    • Drawing on the right side of the brain
    • Sometimes a trusted system can be people
    • David Allen’s TEDx Talk: WHY do GTD, not just WHAT it is or HOW
    • How David starts his day: Good coffee, and the right maps.
    • Dealing with distractions and unexpected inbox deliveries
    • David’s most powerful tools: The Physical Inbox and Notetaker wallet
    • How GTD applies to “work/life balance/blending”
    • GTD is a lifestyle
    • A lot of Getting Things Done is about not getting things done. It’s about being appropriately engaged with what’s going on.
    • GTD and personal relationships
    • The relationship between David and his wife’s personal GTD systems
    • GTD behaviors really need to be installed in a cooperate culture
    • Click to tweet ->[tweetable]Bad meetings create huge emails, and huge emails create bad meetings. – @GTDGuy[/tweetable]
    • Movings things from the someday maybe list into actions and tasks to bring them into reality
    • How much time is too much time “investigating” productivity apps?
    • The “official GTD app”

    David uses:

    • List function in Lotus notes
    • Eproductivity add in for list and calender functionality
    • Mind Manager for mind maps
    • The Brain

    For capture:

    • iPhone 5
    • iPad
    • Gmail
    • Nothing beats pen and paper!

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    Transcript

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    0:00.0

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    0:05.0

    That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help you find the right professionals for your team faster and for free. And trust me, I've spent a lot of time looking

    0:15.6

    through LinkedIn jobs and by far it has been the easiest way for me to find viable candidates fast.

    0:22.5

    And LinkedIn isn't just a job board.

    0:24.2

    LinkedIn helps you hire professionals you can't find anywhere else because even those who

    0:28.3

    aren't actively searching for a new job might be open to the perfect role that you have.

    0:33.2

    In any given month, over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites.

    0:38.3

    So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place.

    0:41.9

    On LinkedIn, 86% of small businesses get qualified

    0:45.0

    candidates within 24 hours. Hire professionals like a professional on LinkedIn.

    0:50.8

    LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire.

    0:56.0

    LinkedIn is constantly finding ways to make the process easier.

    0:59.0

    They even just launched a feature that helps you write job descriptions,

    1:02.0

    making the process even easier and quicker.

    1:04.6

    Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com.

    1:06.6

    That's LinkedIn.com.

    1:09.6

    referral to post your job for free. Hello and

    1:35.0

    this is the show where we have your host Eric Fisher and this is the show where we have

    1:41.0

    interviews and talk to people about how they manage their time,

    1:44.4

    prioritize their tasks, and take steps to avoid burnout.

    1:48.1

    Now obviously we do a lot more than that and this week we're especially going to do a lot more

    1:52.4

    than that. We are talking this week we're especially going to do a lot more than that.

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