Category: “Getting Things Done - GTD”

The Weekly Review is a key activity for GTD to work. The aim is to get a clean, clear, current and complete system, so you can firmly rely on it. You have to empty your mind again and ensure everything that happened in the past week is properly collected, processed and organized. More specifically, you must do the following:

In GTD, a project is quite a different concept from what we are used to in the business world. Put simply, a project is anything we want to do that requires more than one action step. It’s therefore a mechanism to remember that, when we finish that first action step, there will still be something more to do.

I recently read the book A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink. Brilliant, I highly recommend reading it. The author explains how we are evolving from a society that elevates individuals who have developed further the skills that reside in the left brain (Information Age) to a society where those that are committed to develop the skills residing on the right side will succeed (Conceptual Age).

Can you implement GTD by halves? Sure. Is it still GTD? Nope.

Surely you know that the book written by David Allen in 2001, Getting Things Done, has become the manual of personal productivity for hundreds of thousands of followers. The great success of this method is that it has been used and validated empirically by a crowd of supporters.