It’s been a while since I updated my list of GTD & productivity sites/blogs so today I will add some new sites for you to check out, update old URLs and move inactive sites so the list is up to date (this update brings the list to over 100 links). If you feel you have a site that primarily focuses on GTD and/or personal productivity and I haven’t included it on the list then please leave a comment and I will check it out.

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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 your productivity that tends to get overlooked: Speeding up your work so that that you will be getting things done faster (for the purposes of this post lets call it GTDF).

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This is the final part of Organize IT’s birthday special where I posed three questions to a number of my favourite productivity bloggers. I hope you enjoyed this series and gained something from reading such varied opinions, I know I did. I will have to try doing another interview in the near future. Anyways, onto the final question I asked which was, “What are your experiences and advice for breaking bad habits and developing new ones?” Leave your own thoughts and answers to this question in the comments!

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Welcome to the second part of Organize IT’s birthday special where I posed three questions to a number of my favourite productivity bloggers. The results have been very interesting to read. The second question I asked was, “What is the single productivity tip/lifehack that you have implemented that has had the most positive influence in your life?” As always please leave your thoughts and answers to the question in the comments, the results don’t have to just be from the ten bloggers

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As promised a few weeks back, here is the first part of the Organize IT birthday interview where I asked a number of my favorite productivity bloggers three carefully chosen questions (at least I like to think they were carefully chosen). It certainly gave me a chance to see how effective Gmail is for sorting emails. This is my first attempt at an interview of sorts, so I hope it’s up to standard. The first question I asked was, “what events or experiences initially made you want to be more organized and productive?” Please share your own responses in the comments. Hope you enjoy this series!

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