Getting Things Done is really just a collection of habits, and when they are all adopted into your life they bring about a marked improvement in your productivity and general work performance. However the problem is the GTD book isn’t exactly written in terms of habit building so it can be tricky for a newbie [...]

Let me briefly describe a day I had recently. I woke up, had a wash and got dressed. I updated my blogs, then did some idle browsing. On my next actions list I had to pay a bill, fill in some forms and clean the home. But I kept putting it off. I’d find something [...]

View original image When it comes to maximizing how productive you can be there is a lot of talk about adopting frameworks like GTD or Covey’s Seven Habits, cutting down your projects list to the essentials, finding the right tools, avoiding procrastination etc. However in this article I want to discuss another point to increasing [...]

Last week I did the first two parts to this series looking at questions you should ask yourself when thinking about designing your GTD system. Over the weekend I had another think and came up with a further three questions. Have any readers found them useful? Can you think of any other questions of your [...]

Welcome to the second part of this guide looking at questions you need to ask yourself when thinking through how you are going to create your GTD system so you have something that fits your own personal needs. This was originally going to be a two part series but thanks to feedback I hope to [...]