Tag: “Habits”

Despite the use of technology or the number of helping hands you have available to your cause, it will all be meaningless if you do not practice habits that encourage productivity.

Sir John Whitmore, British racing driver and author of the classic book Coaching For Performance, used to say that if you know the basic principles of what he called coaching, you can not only help others reach their goals, but also apply them to any aspect of your life to improve constantly your own performance and, for that matter, the obtained results.

The sheer number and scope of your responsibilities are dizzying.

Your life was a complete chaos and you decided to put it together once and for all. You had heard or read about GTD somewhere and that sentence, the art of stress-free productivity, sounded just like the perfect solution for your organisation problem. However, you’ve been using this methodology on a daily basis for a while now, and, even though things are certainly improving, you don’t feel as if it has made a significant change in your personal productivity.

Contrary to what you may think, GTD is a fairly simple methodology. Basically, it’s about managing a few lists with some rules that anyone can understand and apply.