Basic GTD: Emptying the Inbox
To achieve a stress-free productivity, emptying the inbox should be a daily activity.
8 Things to Do in your Waiting Times
Do not you get bored when you are waiting for someone? Do you mind? If you are prepared, waiting times can be very productive.
How NOT to be a master of productivity
Mastery of personal productivity is achieved by dominating the concepts and workflow, rather than the tools.
Goals, Responsibilities and Next Actions
How to prioritize your actions according to the stuff that really matter.
The Pursuit of Mastery
The pursuit of mastery is a key motivational behavior in today’s world.
“The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity.”
~ Teresa Amabile, professor at Harvard University
Everything in alignment
(post originally published in FacileThings.com)
“Convergence is the state of being where everything in our lives is in alignment.
We have good relationships with family and close friends, we’re excited about work, we’re in good health, we do more or less what we want to every day, and we know we’re making a difference in the world.
…to achieve convergence, two separate (but related) activities are required: saying goodbye to unnecessary tasks, obligations, and expectations — then welcoming in a wide range of other things that enrich our lives.” 1
To achieve this balance, GTD provides you a really useful tool called the Six-Level Model for reviewing your own work.
Click here to know how to implement these 6 Levels of Perspective in your life.
1 From the book The Art of Non-Conformity, by Chris Guillebeau.
How to fix your life
A few months ago, David Allen, personal productivity expert and creator of Getting Things Done (GTD), gave an extensive interview to The Atlantic that was published under the title of David Allen on How to Fix Your Life. This is a collection of his most valuable insights on how to address several common issues of our today’s world.
Basic GTD: How and why you must collect everything
Collecting is the first phase of your personal organization system, in which you try to collect all your incompletes and stuff in one location: your Inbox (not to be confused with the e-mail inbox)…
Checklists, a very productive asset
Checklists are one of the most powerful—and forgotten—organizational tools in GTD. They help you complete tasks without making mistakes, since they contain a list of checkpoints that allow you to remember all the details of the job to be done.
