246: Focusing on Your Goals for the New Year

The end of the year is one of the natural points for reflection, of the past, the present, and the future. End of decades have an especially weighty feel, as well! In this episode, the GTDVSG talks about reflection and looking ahead at our goals for the immediate and distant future. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

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

• Start With Why by Simon Sinek

• My Three Words by Chris Brogan

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240: Future Planning for Horizons 3 and 4

The Horizons of Focus can often be the hardest piece of GTD to grasp. They can seem elusive and amorphous. Today, the VSG shares how we have defined them, and how we keep an eye on them and make sure our goals and visions don’t become purely wishlists. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Horizons of Focus

• OmniFocus

• Nirvana

• GTD® Incomplete Trigger List

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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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225: Higher Horizons

Big goals and life changes… the thing of Higher Horizons! We deep dive into this topic on this episode. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Start With Why by Simon Sinek

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

• The Desire Map by Danielle Laporte

• Making It All Work by David Allen

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

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

• Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono

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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!

198: Long-term Project Planning

In this episode we dig into how to plan for longer term projects. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• GTD® Meetup - NYC

• Trello

• Productivityist.com

• Evernote note append function

• Agile

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

197: Engaging with Horizons of Focus

In this episode we discuss engaging with the Horizons of Focus. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Making It All Work by David Allen

• Getting Things Done by David Allen

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