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06 November 2007 ~ Comments Off

Back to basics…

When I was a child my school gave us road safety training by teaching us to repeat ”Look Right, Look Left, and if All’s Clear, Cross the Road”. They had to change that when they noticed that some children were standing on the edge of the road, reciting the “Look left, Look Right” mantra and then [...]

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05 September 2007 ~ Comments Off

There are no coincidences…

I have suddenly found myself involved with two completely independent GTD departmental roll-outs at the moment. Both of them are cases where a senior manager got big benefits from using the method on his own workflow and then naturally wanted to obtain the same effectiveness hike across his whole department.

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18 June 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Softly, softly catchee monkey

I was reading an article on Matt’s Idea Blog about the pitfalls of trying a “Big Bang” approach to learning GTD.
I work in a large organisation here in the Netherlands and have never succeeded in getting someone to “go GTD” in one fell swoop. Dutch people are culturally often cautious pragmatists and most people [...]

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18 June 2007 ~ Comments Off

Two minutes of lightness

My first contact with GTD was reading the “Two Minute Exercise” in a coaching document I found. I did it and felt instantly lighter and easier in my mind, rather like the things they promise you on late-night telelvision but at no charge. The file credited David Allen and Getting Things Done so I went [...]

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18 June 2007 ~ Comments Off

Getting things Started!

This is my own story of learning, using and teaching the GTD method. GTD has been a lifesaver for me and like many other “saved” people I have a powerful missionary urge to share the goodness: partially because of the pure joy of being on top of things and partly because I get a thrill [...]

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