Month: February 2019

This is episode six, continuing our discussion of Step Five of the Workflow Diagram / Map, Engage (Doing), in our nine-part series on the Getting Things Done (GTD) personal productivity methodology and eponymously-titled book, from the perspective of the ProductivityCast team–as long-term practitioners, critics and observers of GTD. It makes sense that each of [the Horizons of Focus] levels should enhance and align with the ones above it. In other words, your priorities will sit in a hierarchy from the top down.David Allen In this cast, we finish our discussion of the concept of Engage / Engaging (formerly Do / Doing) on your system on a frequency and in methods that work for you, so that you can iterate on your productivity and make strategic next action decisions as your life and work circumstances change. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit http://productivitycast.net/044 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Doing - Getting Things Done (GTD) Ray Sidney-Smith Francis Wade Art Gelwicks Show Notes | Doing - Getting Things Done (GTD) Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life by David Allen Tony Schwartz - The Energy Project - ultradian rhythm Skedpal The Power of Intuition by Gary Klein, PhD Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein, PhD The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R, Covey, PhD The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey, PhD First Things First by Stephen R. Covey, PhD, Rebecca Merrill, and A. Roger Merrill Remember the Milk Trello Asana 15,000 Feet: The Space Between Projects and Areas of Focus and Responsibility Franklin Covey Mission Statement Builder The table below is sourced from the GTD® Personal Productivity System in Google Sheets template. Horizons of FocusContextAltitudeQuestionGroundNext-ActionsRunwayWhat is it? What’s the desired outcome?1Projects10,000 feet levelIs it actionable? What’s the next action? (Does it have more than one next action?)What has to happen first?What does doing look like?Where does it happen?2Areas of Responsibility20,000 feet levelWhat do I need to maintain?3Short-Term Goals30,000 feet levelWhat do I want to achieve?4Long-Term Goals40,000 feet levelWhat would long-term success look, sound and feel like (usually further than two years)?If you were wildly successful in the coming years, what do you imagine or see yourself doing or being?5Purpose/Mission50,000 feet levelWhy/How am I (are we)? Raw Text Transcript | Doing - Getting Things Done (GTD) Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is mm:ss (e.g., 0:04 starts at 4 seconds into the cast’s audio). Read More Unknown 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling, productive life? Then you've come to the right place. Productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Welcome back everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm recently Smith. I'm Francis Wade. And I'm Arthur Gelwicks. And we are here today to continue our episode from last week where we started talking about getting things done the art of stress free productivity.

This is episode five, on Step Five of the Workflow Diagram / Map, Engage (Do), in our nine-part series on the Getting Things Done (GTD) personal productivity methodology and eponymously-titled book, from the perspective of the ProductivityCast team–as long-term practitioners, critics and observers of GTD. When it comes to your real-time, plow-through, get-it-done workday, how do you decide what to do at any given point?As I've said, my simple answer is, trust your heart...your gut, the seat of your pants, your liver, your intuition—whatever works for you as a reference point that has you step back and access whatever you consider the source of your inner wisdom.David Allen In this cast, we cover the concept of Engage / Engaging (formerly Do / Doing) on your system on a frequency and in methods that work for you, so that you can iterate on your productivity and make strategic next action decisions as your life and work circumstances change. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit http://productivitycast.net/043 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Engage - Getting Things Done (GTD) Ray Sidney-Smith Francis Wade Art Gelwicks Show Notes | Engage - Getting Things Done (GTD) Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life by David Allen Myers-Briggs inventory - Perceiving Zimbardo time perspective inventory Perfect Time-Based Productivity by Francis Wade Todoist Raw Text Transcript | Engage - Getting Things Done (GTD) Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is mm:ss (e.g., 0:04 starts at 4 seconds into the cast’s audio). Read More Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling, productive life? Then you've come to the right place. Productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity here, your host race, Sydney Smith and a goose open out with Francis Wade and our gal wicks Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:16 Welcome back everybody to productivity cast the weekly show about all things personal productivity. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith Francis Wade 0:23 I'm Francis Wade. Art Gelwicks 0:24 And I'm Arthur Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:26 Welcome, gentlemen. And here we are in our fifth episode in our ongoing series about getting things done, or the GTD methodology. And as practicing GTD years, once practicing GTD yours or non practicing GTD years, we are here to talk about the various aspects of how the getting things done, methodology works and how we all view it from our our different areas of expertise and experience with the Getting Things Done world. And what want us to do today is to talk about the fifth stage in the workflow map or the workflow diagram that most people know as doing or engaging now in the first edition of the book it was called doing. And now in the march 25 edition, which is the latest edition of the book, David Allen talks about it as engaging. And this is actually a change as I talked about in the last episode from the march 2010 book, making it all work by David Allen, he had changed some lingo. And that has made its way over to the latest edition of getting things done. And what I'd like us to do is to In this episode, talk about what engaging means to each of us, then we will cover the models that David Allen...