Category: “Getting Things Done - GTD”

The Weekly Review is a time that GTDers dedicate to our personal organization every week. More specifically, it is a time we spend to restore our balance, ensuring that everyday urgencies will not impose their law and, therefore, we are always working on what is actually important.

Here comes the start of a new year together with new illusions, despite the gray situation. Although we make our new year resolutions and we are eager to start something new, it is quite common that most of them end up doomed to abandonment by the lack of implementation capacity.

UPDATE: This feature was completely redesigned and updated in 2020

It is great to have powerful tools that give us confidence and enthusiasm, but let’s face it, all this functionality is sometimes translated into complex personal management systems. Either because we do not go beyond the basics in the learning phase, or because we do not perform a self-analysis, reflection process about how we are using it, software sometimes becomes an inert stuff in which we do not evolve.

David Allen calls stuff to anything you have let enter into your world (physical or psychological) that it is not in the proper place, since you have not yet determined the results you hope to achieve and the first action step to do.