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This is episode nine, Reflections on GTD: What I Wish I Knew When I Started GTD, Part Two, and therefore the last 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. In this cast, Augusto Pinaud, Francis Wade, Art Gelwicks and I discuss what we wish we knew when we first started or came across Getting Things Done, the book and methodology, as we tried to understand and/or implement it. This certainly isn't the last time we'll talk about GTD, but we had a great time discussing GTD in this series and hope you enjoyed it, too! (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/047 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 | What I Wish I Knew When I Started GTD, Part Two Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade Art Gelwicks Show Notes | What I Wish I Knew When I Started GTD, Part Two 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 Getting Things Done Virtual Study Group Zeigarnik effect GTD Fast audio program Todoist Waze (driving navigation app) Raw Text Transcript | What I Wish I Knew When I Started GTD, Part Two 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 Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:16 Welcome back everybody to productivity cast the weekly show about all things productivity I'm recently Smith I'm joined here with August to pronounce Francis weight in our galaxy. Welcome to the show gentlemen. Augusto Pinaud 0:28 Good morning. Francis Wade 0:29 Thanks Ray. Art Gelwicks 0:30 Morning. Hey guys, how's everything going, Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:32 it's good to have all of us on the show again this week and and we're back at it with a continuation of the conversation we were having last week. And to fill you all in. If you haven't listened to Episode 46, hop on back over there and listen to Episode 46 at productivity cast.net forward slash 046. And you'll be able to hear the first part of our conversation about what we all wish we knew. When we started GTD, some of us are not GTD practitioners now, but we've all been acquainted with the material and have probably attempted to implement it at some level. And these are all things that we wish we had known when we first attempted to go ahead and implement. So I'm going to kick us off here with the first item that I really am thinking about as we continue the conversation from last week. Which is this idea of, of trusting your system. And so David Allen talks about trusting the your system. And and through this concept of trust, you'll be you'll be more comfortable with externalising your tasks and projects. And I'm very curious about what you will also have to say about this. Because when I first thought about that, it was a real game changer. For me. I felt very excited about this idea that if I trusted where I was good to put things,

This is episode eight, Reflections on GTD: What I Wish I Knew When I Started GTD, Part One, and our second-to-last 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. In this cast, Augusto, Francis and I discuss what we wish we knew when we first started or came across Getting Things Done, the book and methodology, as we tried to understand and/or implement it. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit http://productivitycast.net/046 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 | What I Wish I Knew When I Started GTD, Part One Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade Show Notes | What I Wish I Knew When I Started GTD, Part One 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 Perfect Time-Based Productivity by Francis Wade Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World by David Allen, Mike Williams and Mark Wallace GTD Fast audio program Top 6 Mistakes GTD’ers Make Raw Text Transcript | What I Wish I Knew When I Started GTD, Part One 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 re Sydney Smith and a goose open out with Francis Wayne an art gallery. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:16 Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity. I'm recently Smith and I'm joined here today with acoustic burnout. And Francis Wade. Good morning, gentlemen. Good morning. Good morning. Morning. We are going to be talking today about what are the things that we wish we knew when we first learned about and attempted to implement getting things done getting things methodology, this closes out our series on the Getting Things Done methodology. It's certainly not the last episode will have about it. But it's certainly in this particular series, we wanted to close that we can pass along to you about getting things done. So that if you are just going getting started, or if you've been chugging along and having some level of success, and some two steps forward, one step back with getting things done, you'll hopefully learn a thing or two along the way with our conversation about how to get moving forward, get that momentum around areas that you might be having some problems. This topic was proposed by Augusto So, okay, so why don't you kick it off for us? Why don't you tell us a little bit about what brought this topic to mind. And your first thought about what you wish you knew when you started becoming a GTD practitioner, Augusto Pinaud 1:38 it took me a while to to get into a solid system of getting things done. And there is a lot of things about the methodology that I think are extremely powerful. So so I want to start there because I don't want this to go into all this is your having this topic because this doesn't work. Because has nothing to do with that. I just wish that when people start reading the book, and when people start implementing,

This is episode seven, where we discuss the powerful productivity practice of the Weekly Review, 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. “The Weekly Review is the time to: Gather and process all your stuff. Review your system. Update your lists. Get clean, clear, current, and complete. You have to use your mind to get things off your mind.” David Allen In this cast, Augusto and I discuss the power of the Weekly Review and some of the hangups that keep people from doing the Weekly Review and flourishing with the practice consistently. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit http://productivitycast.net/045 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 | Weekly Review - Getting Things Done (GTD) Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Show Notes | Weekly Review - 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 Raw Text Transcript | Weekly Review - 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 re Sydney Smith and a goose open out with Francis Wayne an art gallery. Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast the weekly show about all things personal productivity. I'm Raisa D. Smith and have a good job you know and welcome back to our series on getting things done these last several episodes and the next couple of episodes we are covering all of the unique aspects the the fundamental components of getting things done the the methodology based on the book, getting things done the art of stress free productivity by David Allen and I am actually holding a copy of the march 2015 edition that David Allen put out almost three years ago and today August You and I are going to be talking about the weekly review and in that copy of the book, David Allen really calls the Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:00 Weekly Review one of the critical success factors and we're going to talk about three fundamental pieces one. Today we're going to talk about defining the weekly review in GTD terms, as well as in ways in which we really view the GTD weekly review construct today in our own systems. We're going to talk about our practice of the weekly review and what we've changed over time, how we have implemented the weekly review in our own systems today, and then some of the challenges that we all face in the implementation of the weekly review because the weekly review is a challenge for so many people. We're going to talk about how people really make the weekly review happen. So let's start off Augusta with how do you define the weekly review and what I will. What I'll do first is I will I will give David Allen's definition here. And what David Allen did is in the 2015 edition, he was so kind in the appendix to provide a goal. We have terms like Glossary of getting things done terms. So he's given us some some definitions, which is actually really awesome. So under weekly review,

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...