Category: “Getting Things Done - GTD”

I often receive emails from people who tell me the difficulties they find to implement GTD. I have detected a pattern that is repeated often enough, so I decided to write this article.

Imagine that, in a given moment of your day, you find an unexpected gift of 30 free minutes. What will you do with this time? What should you do? There are some variables that come into play when you are choosing what is the best thing you can do at any particular moment during your day. Ideally, all these variables would be somehow assimilated by your subconscious, so that when the time comes, you just need to trust your intuition.

Imagine if you could keep all your personal management under control at all times and at all levels. Imagine if you could dedicate all your attention, with no distractions, to whatever you decide to do. Imagine if you could get meaningful things done in a relaxed way and with minimal effort.

One reason for the success of GTD as a personal productivity tool, is that it is the first one that urges people to make a complete inventory of everything that makes up their current reality, before starting to implement the method.

Many people think that a personal productivity system consists of some software and/or a calendar and/or an ordered to-do list and/or a series of notes or documents relating to all this. However, this is nothing more than the physical, tangible part — the least important — of a personal productivity system.