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Productivity Tips #14: Clear The Decks

Clutter is a big problem for numerous reasons – it gets in the way, it makes it difficult to find stuff. In fact, I think that de-cluttering your surroundings is so important to your overall wellbeing I have an entire section called Clutter 101 dedicated to it. But what about the psychological effect? It’s great [...]

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Smart Quotes: David Allen’s Top 10 GTD Tweets

Something a little different today. Recently David Allen (just some guy who developed this thing called GTD, heard of him?) passed the one million followers mark on Twitter. Maybe I’m biased because Twitter is the only social networking site I actually have any interest in (in contrast to all my friends Facebook luvin’) but I [...]

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Productivity Tip #13: Small Steps Taken Regularly…

Regular readers of this blog will no doubt know how keen I am about the whole idea of breaking your work down into tiny chunks of activity (or next actions if you’re a GTD fan). I do it so often in fact that any little project I have I will look at how it can [...]

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GTD Is An Attention Management System

I’ve always wondered how best to describe GTD to people. I’ve found that once you get through the hyping up and the fancy wording that David Allen increasingly uses when discussing his methodology, it’s a fairly straightforward system (though of course, understanding it and being able to use it on a regular basis are two [...]

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Why Is Falling Off The Wagon Acceptable?

David Allen claims he falls off the wagon all the time. He loses control and goes loopy (maybe) on a regular basis. His co-workers at his company also fall off the wagon and have regular in-house training just to get back on board. Twitter is full of people falling off the wagon. I used to [...]

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