Year: 2009
Why “Just Do It” Is Still The Best Productivity Advice
Just do it. Stop procrastinating and get on with it. It really should be that simple and years ago it probably was. We should all have the doing habit – that drive inside to see our daily chores completed despite what’s on TV or our to-do list ticked off despite colleagues pestering us. But nowadays [...]
Does GTD Make Your Brain Lazy?
View original image One of the key elements of GTD is capturing what’s on your radar – offloading what’s on your head so you’re no longer thinking of stuff, but about the stuff. It’s a great bit of advice and it’s something I encourage people to do regardless of what system, workflow or methodology takes [...]
GTD And The Work/Life Blur Dilemma
This guest post was written by Rich of Half-A-Dozen Monkeys. The main focus of David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology is… well, to get things done. It aims to give you a tool to enable you to identify everything you need to do and then go and get those things done. This is fine. No, [...]
5 Reasons Why GTD And Creativity Can Mix Together, Damnit!
On Monday I talked about the misconception of creativity – that it’s about thinking big, opening your mind, etc. This got me thinking about what I believe to be another big misconception. Many people claim that GTD and creativity don’t work together, and to be frank it’s kind of frustrating. It’s such a matter-of-fact statement, [...]
Unleashing Creativity: Think Big AND Small
Excuse the rambling nature of this post but I’ve had a few thoughts about creativity recently and I want to get it off my head (in the spirit of my last post). You see, creativity seems to be associated with hippy-like ideas about thinking big and opening your mind to new ideas and different experiences. [...]