There aren’t many of us, male or female, who have not at some point made note of a bulging waist line and decided that it was time to do something about it. And most of us will have made some attempt at changing our diet for a period in the hope of fitting into those […]
Urgent Versus Important – Challenging The Paradigm
In a world where the rate at which we receive new requests for information or action far exceeds our ability to respond to them, we need to have some sort of approach to sifting the wheat from the chaff. If not, we just get quickly over-loaded and stress levels build. And so, it’s probably no […]
How Messy Is YOUR Brain?
Do you know the feeling of being constantly distracted by thoughts of things you’ve got to do? Thoughts of what you need to remember to tell someone tomorrow, or what you need to do when you get to the office, or what you think you forgot to do today before you left the office? It […]
The Credit Card Approach to Communication
My working life has traversed the pre-email era through to our modern email and social media dominated approaches to communications. How about you? And if you have lived life both with and without email in your life, have you ever pondered whether it was all worth it? Did we really achieve all that we thought […]
Sitting Comfortably? That’s a Pity!
There’s no such thing as a one size fits all approach to how we live our lives. We’re all different people with differing likes and dislikes and so, stipulating a single way to do anything is pretty much pointless. What works for me won’t necessarily work for you, I get that. But, have you ever thought […]
It’s Not Really About Getting Things Done
The message behind a personal productivity approach such as the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology of David Allen may at first appear to be seen as one pushing you to become ever more efficient as if that, in itself, is the solution to gaining more control in your life. But that would be a disservice […]
What You Can Learn From Your Grocery List
Strange title for a post I know! But a couple of years ago I was explaining GTD to someone and they rather neatly summed it up by saying ‘so what you’re telling me, is that I need to keep a shopping list for my groceries?’. And I kind of had to agree with them! How Do […]
My Personal Experience of Implementing GTD
Whenever you start something new, you never really know what your getting yourself into right? Sure, you read up about it and it sounds interesting and workable but, will it get added to the junk heap of things you’ve tried just a few days or even hours from now? But with GTD I had a […]
Why I Started Out With GTD
If you’ve ever felt the need to take control of life and better handle the gazillion inputs that keep coming into your life then an implementation of David Allen’s ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD) methodology can be a great place to start. (First edition was in 2002 and a revised edition was issued in 2015.) Before […]
