224: Year End Review and Higher Horizons

The end of year is a great time to reflect and plan for the next year. It’s also the perfect time to revisit, and possibly reimagine, your higher horizons. We talk about this and more in this episode of the GTD® VSG. Enjoy!  

Resources from the call:

• Making It All Work by David Allen

• The 8th Habit by Dr. Stephen R. Covey

• Start with Why by Simon Sinek

• Find Your Why by Simon Sinek, David Mead, and Peter Docker

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223: System Tweaks

Sometimes our systems need a little tweak. Sometimes they don’t. We dive into the topic on this episode of the GTD® VSG. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• GTD® Weekly Review Checklist

• GTD® Friday Weekly Review Accountability Facebook Group

• Commit30

• Reminders app on iPhone

• Circa binder

• Leuchtturm 1917 Notebooks - dot matrix

• Bullet Journal

• Remember The Milk

• The Twelve Week Year by Brain P. Moran and Michael Lennington

• Pilot Eraseable Pen

• Making It All Work by David Allen

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Dr. Stephen R. Covey

• The 8th Habit Covey by Dr. Stephen R. Covey

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Apologies for the sound quality on this one!

222: System Maintenance

How do you stay on track and keep your GTD® system maintained? Hear how the GTD® VSG does it. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Bullet Journal

• GTD-Q Assessment

• The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

• 18-minute Rule by Peter Bregman

• Brain.fm

• 43Folders.com

• OmniFocus

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Special thanks to John Chidiac for capturing the resources for this episode!

221: Reviews of All Kinds

How often do you Review? In this episode we discuss reviews of all kind. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• The Unschedule by Dr Neil Fiore

• Ray Sidney-Smith - Unschedule - Anti-Procrastination Productivity System from Neil Fiore - The Now Habit

• iThoughts app

• 18 Minutes by Peter Bregman

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220: GTD Tips

GTD Tips and Tricks Galore!!! Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• GTD® Virtual Study Group podcast by Topic

• Getting Things Done® by David Allen Abridged audio book 

• LinkedIn Learning course on Getting Things Done by David Allen (formerly Lynda.com)

• GTD Connect

• Project Planning course GTD.com

• Zen to Done by Leo Baubuta

• The 12 Week Year by Brian P Moran and Michael Lennington

• Procrastinate on Purpose by Rory Vaden

• The 8th Habit by Dr Stephen R. Covey

• Making It All Work by David Allen

• Start With Why by Simon Sinek

• Essentialism by Greg McKeown

• ReWork by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

• The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

• The 5-Hour Workday by Stephan Aarstol

• Productivity Book Group

• The Productivity Show podcast

• Everlast Notebooks - Rocketbook, new plastic version

• Livescribe

• Good Notes App on iPad Pro

• Evernote

• Omnifocus

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Special thanks to John Chidiac for capturing the resources for this episode!

219: Challenges

We talk about life, work, and productivity challenges (like your email app being shut down) in this episode of the GTD® Virtual Study Group. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• David Allen Company webinar on Natural Planning Model

• GTD Incomplete Trigger List

• Getting Things Done® Podcast - GTD For Creative People

• Getting Things Done® Podcast - Interview with Evan Taubenfeld

• The Secret Weapon

• GTD setup guides

• GTD® Meetup - NYC

• Getting Things Done® by David Allen - Audible version

• Gmail

• BlueMail

• Spark

• Outlook

• SaneBox

• Einstein Mail by AnyMail

• MailTime

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218: Engage

The GTD® VSG discusses the Engage step of GTD® in this episode. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy

• OmniFocus

• Remember The Milk

• Evernote

• Essentialism by Greg McKeown

• The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

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217: Ask The VSG

In this episode of Ask The VSG! we cover what to do when your beloved apps get changed or dropped and the impact of that on your GTD® workflow. We also talk about how to deal with project overload — especially when you can’t say no. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Newton - revived!

• Spark iOS

• Mailbird

• SaneBox

• MsgFiler for Apple Mail

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216: Using GTD To Work With Others

Don’t you wish everyone you work with was also practicing GTD®? In this episode of GTD® VSG, we talk about collaborating with others and using our GTD® systems to help make it easier.

Resources from the call:

• Manager Tools episode: Assign Work AND Reporting

• Boundaries by Henry Cloud

• FocusMate

• SaneBox

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215: Self Discipline

How do you keep up your GTD® system and right the wagon when the wheels have flown off? In this episode of GTD® VSG, we discuss strategies and techniques to help with that. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• GTD Connect

• Getting Things Done® Episode #7 - Weekly Review

• Control Your Day

• Office 365

• Microsoft Planner

• Microsoft Flow

• IFTTT

• The Stories We Tell Ourselves by R. Scott Gornto

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