336: Engaging

In this episode we discuss the Engage Phase of Workflow of GTD. Lots of great insight and shares. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Five Phases of Workflow

• Microsoft To-Do

• Obsidian

• eProductivity

• Todoist

• David Allen on GTD® and Dealing with Interruptions

• Clear app

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321: Working with Partners

Working with partners is tricky, especially if they don't practice the same process and systems that you do (GTD®). So how do you get on the same page? How do you approach getting their involvement or buy in? How do you practice empathy for both yourself and others? We dive into this and so much more in this episode. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Workflowy

• Asana

• Weekly Review Accountability Party

• Personal Productivity Club

• Organize365 - Sunday basket

• Stephen Covey System

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294: Struggles When Starting GTD®

Starting up a GTD® system can be daunting. And there's lots of stuff we learn how to do better as we continue our practice over time. In this episode, we cover a bunch of our experiences and what we've learned as we've refined our systems. Tons of helpful insights! Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• GTD Weekly Review®

• GTD® Threefold Nature of Work

• GTD® Next Actions

• David Allen on GTD® and Dealing with Interruptions

• Getting Things Done® Podcast

• Full Focus planner

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283: Workflows

Workflows are so important in managing our systems. They help keep things flowing. They can provide safeguards (like backing up or printing out). In this episode we talk about a ton of different workflows we use with our systems. So many great ideas! Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• GTD® Setup Guides

• Evernote

• Todoist

• The Secret Weapon

• OmniFocus

• ClickUp

• Asana

• Remember the Milk

• Trello

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279: Doing & Prioritizing

Always a great topic! This is one of the places where people tend to get stuck in the GTD methodology. We talk all about the doing phase, now called the engage phase. And we cover how prioritizing actually is helpful, just not in the way we were all originally taught to do it. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• 3x5 index cards

• Rocketbook cards

• FocusMate

• "Don’t sweat the small stuff, and it’s all small stuff” by Richard Carlson

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249: Context Avoidance

Do you find yourself avoiding using contexts sometimes? I know I did! (And not so secretly now, do still sometimes.) What’s that all about? We cover that in this call. And how we do make our systems work with, and without, contexts. (Oh, the blasphemy!) ;)

Resources from the call:

• OmniFocus

• OmniFocus Ninja Screencasts by David Sparks

• Eisenhower Matrix

• Eisenhower quadrant spreadsheet

• Four Criteria Model

• Asana

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237: GTD Summit 2019 Day Two Recap

This is the recap for Day Two of the #GTDSummit which happened in Amsterdam in June 2019.

The theme of the Summit from David Allen:

• The strategic value of space

• There are no problems, only projects

Again, there was way too much content in the Summit to cover in an hour recap, but we did our best. 😉 Enjoy!!

Resources from the call:

• gtdsummit.com Official website of the #GTDSummit.

• http://coda.io/gtdsummit (This was the events “app” and has great summaries of the presentations and bios of the speakers.)

• Build Your Omnifocus by Ryan Dotson & Rosemary Orchard

• Guided Mindsweep Using iOS Shortcuts App from Rosemary Orchard

• Automators 27: Shortcuts in iOS 13 - Diving into the Deep End!

• Next Action Associates, Certified International Partner of David Allen Company in the UK and Ireland.

• Holacracy.org - Self-management Practice for Organizations

• Holocracy by Brian J. Robertson

• Getting Things Done podcast - Episode 39: GTD & Holacracy

• Getting Things Done podcast - Episode 41: David Allen Talks with General Randall Fullhart

• Sabri Eryigit of Next Action Partners, Germany

• Tom Thomison, former co-founder of HolacracyOne and now of Dwarfs and Giants

• Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan

• Breaking Rank: How to lead change when yesterday’s stories limit today’s choices by Steven Coutinho

• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

• Smarter Faster Better: The transformative power of real productivity by Charles Duhigg

• GTD For Teens by David Allen, Mike Williams, and Mark Wallace

• Mark Wallace - Elementary School Children are “Getting Things Done” article

• Equipping the next generation to conquer overload and distraction | Mark Wallace | TEDxEdina

• David Allen’s #UltimateGTDApp Challenge

• Emily Gregory of Vital Smarts

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Paterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler

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236: GTD Summit 2019 Day One Recap

So the #GTDSummit 2019 just happened in Amsterdam. And, WOW, was it awesome!

By popular request, we’re doing a recap of the summit. In this episode we cover much of Day One of the Summit. We’ll cover Day Two in the next episode. There was way too much content in the Summit to cover in an hour, but we did our best. 😉 Enjoy!!

The theme of the Summit from David Allen:

• The strategic value of space

• There are no problems, only projects

Resources from the call:

• gtdsummit.com Official website of the #GTDSummit.

• http://coda.io/gtdsummit (This was the events “app” and has great summaries of the presentations and bios of the speakers, including the ones we didn’t cover.)

• Marshall Goldsmith’s daily questions spreadsheet

• Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith

• Trap Tales by David Covey & Stephan M Mardyks

• Focus AAN/UIT by Mark Tigchelaar

• Default Mode Network

• Busy by Tony Crabbe

• Brainchains by Theo Compernolle

• David Arnoux’s GrowthTribe.io

• Eric Anderson Space Adventures

• When by Daniel Pink

• Workarounds by Russell Bishop

• GTD for Teens by Mark Wallace, Mike Williams, and David Allen

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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!

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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