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05 April 2008 ~ Comments Off

The joy of…

As I have mentioned before I regularly get revelations in the form of a blinding flash of the extremely bloody obvious. I just realized yesterday something that I really, truly get out of GTD and having a grip in all my stuff but never mentioned here. I have…
Fun.
I have a blast. Everyone has high and [...]

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05 April 2008 ~ 1 Comment

The Dance, and Book, of Joy

A few years back I had the great, good fortune to work in a team of people who had both great skills and great capacity for joy, one of whom came back from an assignment with a plastic, dancing cow that played the Mexican Hat song. It was immediately named “Hendrik” and promoted to “Vice President [...]

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28 March 2008 ~ Comments Off

Being inspired

Sometimes I write things on this blog that am almost ashamed to admit it took me years to realise. I find that the great revelations for me appear not as a flash of light but a slap on the forehead. The corollory of that is that I also hesitate to tell you guys what I [...]

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28 March 2008 ~ Comments Off

Ask the dumb question…

Every now and then something goes past in a meeting that I do not understand. When that happens I ask for an explanation, for help. I had to train myself to do that even when I was afraid of looking dumb. Please ask the question. I have had so very, very many experiences in which [...]

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16 February 2008 ~ Comments Off

Confession time…

I have a confession to make…. Recently I let my home inbox pile up for more than three weeks. It got bigger and scruffier all the time and started lowering at me while I tried to do other things. Of course something like that has a double whammy for me. I have all the guilt about [...]

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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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