An open loop is something which is pulling on your attention. I have a few from 2009 relating to Quantum Gardener which I will close today lest they fester and end up consuming more and more of my time. 50 book challenge (2009) In 2008 I successfully read 50 personal and self improvement books in a [...]
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I run my Getting Things Done (GTD) system using PersonalBrain as my primary tool. Using Tags for contexts and a Thought Type for dates I’m easily able to model an online tickler file. Tickler files are used to remind you of things in the future — in the future so that you can forget about [...]
Poojan Wagh’s list of learnings from a recent GTD seminar makes interesting reading. There may be some things you can learn as well. The biggest thing I learned from the seminar was that I need to experiment more. I had taken the GTD methodology to be a mandate. Most of my frustration with GTD has [...]
A few days ago I wrote on the last page in my moleskine journal. It took me 10½ months to write on each of the 240 pages. The journal is a record of my internal thinking over that period and I’d like to share with you some of what I learnt about the writing process [...]
In just four hours of concentrated work I cleared and processed four in-trays, one bookshelf, two desks, the floor, the top of three filing cabinets and a table. The only casualties were a cheap office shredder and a Dymo labeller tape. I tell a lie. The third casualty was stress and confusion. This morning the accounts [...]
Last Thursday was one of those days. Lots of stuff coming at me and some critical deadlines which had be be met before I was able to take Friday off work. Despite this I left Thursday in control knowing what had to be done was done and comfortable that what I hadn’t yet got to [...]
Sometimes a kick in the pants is needed to get you started again. The Free Library of Philadelphia recorded a talk by David Allen in which he provides the best overall outline and introduction to his Getting Things Done material that I have heard. He doesn’t hold back any punches. The podcast was a timely [...]
If your body is tense you can massage it into relaxation. What if your mind is tense? How do you relax that? It is possible to eliminate stressful thinking and massage your mind into relaxation. This is the second in a series of articles on stress management explaining the simple and practical ways in which [...]
This is a public thanks to the team at Gyronix for creating such a great MindManager add-in with their ResultsManager Vista product. I’ve been a user of ResultsManager for about two years and have made it a core tool in my implementation of David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology. I’ve even put it to use [...]
