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This is episode four, on Step Four of the Workflow Diagram / Map, Reflect (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. “[...O]ne of the requirements it that you have to come back and reflect and review on your system and care and feed it and make sure that it stays current." "See a lot of the value of Getting Things Done methodology is being able to offload off your psyche the job of remembering and reminding. In order to do that though, you can’t fool your own mind. It knows whether or not you’ve looked at what you need to look at as often as you need to look at it and if you’re not doing that, that’s not just the weekly review, but if you’re not looking daily at your calendar and you know you need to, then some part of you is gonna be bothered by that all the time." ~David Allen (Source) In this cast, we cover the concept of Reflect (formerly Review) 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/042 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 | Reflect - Getting Things Done (GTD) Ray Sidney-Smith Francis Wade Art Gelwicks Show Notes | Reflect - 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 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin Evernote OneNote Journey Day One IFTTT Raw Text Transcript | Reflect - 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 hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17 Welcome everybody to productivity cast the weekly show about all things productivity. I'm recently Smith, and I'm joined here this morning with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Good morning gentlemen, Francis Wade 0:27 morning. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:28 Good day, good day to you all. And Good day, to our listeners, wherever you might be listening from today, we are going to be talking about getting things done. This has been in a series of episodes where we've been discussing getting things done the art of stress, free productivity by David Allen, and really having a conversation around each of the fundamental components of the GTD methodology. And so we are going to be talking about reviewing and reflecting. So in the first edition of getting things done back in 2001, David Allen called this stage reviewing. And I think it created a number of different confusions for people. And in the march 2015 edition, actually, subsequent in the 2011, making it all workbook,

Host’s note: You will notice that Art Gelwicks stopped speaking about 13 minutes into this week’s ProductivityCast about the GTD step, Organize. Unfortunately, there were technical difficulties. Our apologies for any parts where it may sound like we jumped from segment to another; it’s likely where Art was speaking and his audio wasn’t available. That said, this is episode three, on Step Three of the Workflow Diagram / Map, Organize, 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. “Being organized simply means that where something is matches what it means to you. No more, no less.” ~David Allen In this cast, we cover how and where to organize after clarifying items in our inboxes, so that we can effectively trigger next actions when we have discretionary time to make progress on our projects and tasks. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit http://productivitycast.net/041 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 | Organize - Getting Things Done (GTD) Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Art Gelwicks Show Notes | Organize - 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 The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life by Shawn Achor “Getting Things Done: The Science behind Stress-Free Productivity” (p. 5 flowchart with processing/organizing questions) Evernote Remember the Milk Google Calendar Mind42 Simple Mind FreeMind Tony Buzan Goodnotes 4 (iOS) Raw Text Transcript | Organize - 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 hosts, Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17 Welcome everybody to productivity cast the weekly show about all things personal productivity. I'm recently Smith and I'm joined with my co host goes to pronounce. How's it going to gusto. Augusto Pinaud 0:26 It's going to. Well, good morning. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:28 Hello. Hello. And we have art galleries with us today. How's it going art Art Gelwicks 0:32 doing pretty well, so far? Guys? Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:33 How about you guys? I am doing well. I glad to hear you're doing well. And we're going to hope that our listeners are doing well. And in this cast, we are going to talk about organizing, and we're going to be talking about it in the GTD flavor getting things done by David Allen flavor in this series that we've been ongoing. And we're going to talk about the idea of what is organizing? How do we define organizing, at least in the context of getting things done? Well, then talk about how each of us organizes our projects, next actions and other items, whether that be in a traditional list or otherwise. And then we're going to talk about some of the challenges that we know people face in getting organized in GTD and then maybe how to overcome them, or at least commiserating with you about the travails of getti...