Category: “Getting Things Done - GTD”

The Daily Review is a resource to sort the ideas generated during the day and arrange your work plan. First, you have to review your Calendar to have in mind the commitments for the next day, checking all the necessary stuff to ensure you are not forgetting anything. This is key to not appear at a meeting without an important document or information, to not feel a little bad for not mentioning a significant detail that emerged during the previous evening.

It is impossible to reach the state of relaxed control that GTD promises if there are things that only exist in your head. Thinking about the same thing several times is an inefficient way to spend your time and energy, as well as a source of stress.

GTD (Getting Things Done) is a productivity methodology that was introduced in the USA in 2001 by David Allen. His book has become a worldwide reference manual on self-management. In 2008 it had already been published in 28 languages ​​and been sold over a million copies.

The first step in mastering the control of your activity is managing your actions, your projects and your calendar. When you want to frame your actions in areas of responsibility to have a clear view of your activity, you do it through your projects. Reading your list of projects and grouping them into focus categories you can draw conclusions. Looking from the bottom up you get an idea on how you are doing at the moment.

You do not manage time. If you have five minutes available, no matter what you do, you will not end up with six.