Do you suck at getting things done? First step is to pray, because, if you’re like me, not getting things done is often a spiritual issue – laziness. Secondly, work out a system that will help you to get things done. I started reading ‘How to Get Things Done‘ by David Allen about 3 years ago – but ironically, I lost the book and I only just found it!
Getting Things Done (GTD) is a well-known system that aims for stress-free productivity. I kinda implement some of his strategies, but would do well to implement more! Ben Bathgate has done a great service by summarising GTD into 7 readable posts:
- The Problem
- The Trusted System – Projects and Tasks
- The Calendar – The ‘Hard Landscape’
- Ubiquitous Capture – The Point of Failure
- Action – Getting Things Done
- Tools for GTD – Lo- and Hi-Tech
- Kicking Off – The Inbox
Check out these summaries, get the book and start getting stuff done! sxc pic
Thanks, Dave.
thank you!
David Allen’s book is great. I’m a big fan of GTD. Just downloaded Outlook Track-it from http://www.outlooktrackit.com, its a plugin for outlook that lets you flag emails to be followed up.
GTD is awesome. Have you used Outlook Track-it? it’s a great program that implements David Allen’s ideas. It’s a small toolbar for outlook that lets you flag emails for followup reminders.