Getting Things Done

Imagine waking up on a Monday morning and opening your email to find two time-sensitive projects assigned to you. One is from your Supervisor asking you to put together a report on a borderline unrealistic timeline. …

Taking Control of Your Time and Priorities The procrastination bug bit me hard this morning. I downloaded 2 apps to help update my Twitter profile picture. I went into Canva to update my header graphic. I played with the copy on the image. Two hours went by, and I didn’t…

Early this morning, I chose to wake myself up with an frigid surf session. I’m spending the weekend with some good mates in northern New South Wales. It’s noticeably colder here compared with my home up in the Sunshine State. This is my third season surfing and I still don’t…

We often seem to step into the trap of outsourcing too much of our own thinking. Blindly relying on recipes that help tackling the problem at hand, means defaulting into a plausible deniability escape route, geared towards decreasing one’s liability, if the proverbial “thing” hits the fan. At the same…

The last stage of the GTD workflow is probably the most misunderstood, perhaps because of its name. In the current version of the Getting Things Done book in English it is called “engage”, although at the beginning it was simply called “do”. Regardless, this stage is neither about doing nor…

Unleashing the Potential of Tracking, Planning, and Overcoming Obstacles — We all have goals and aspirations, whether they’re related to personal growth, career advancement, or health and wellness. However, turning these aspirations into reality often poses a significant challenge. That’s where the concept of implementation intentions comes into play. Backed by scientific research, implementation intentions offer an influential framework for…

Make it so you don’t have to fake it — We’ve all been told: “Fake it ‘till you make it.” It used to sound like good advice: Go for the job even if you’re not qualified. Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. You can be anything you want — there are shortcuts to the top. …

Achieve More, Do Less: The Magic of Power Tasks in Simplifying Success My Crazy 90 Days My writing and personal branding knowledge have grown significantly in the past 90 days. It happened after I signed up for a well-known guru’s cohort-based course. While my follower count has almost doubled, and I just had my…

Getting Things Done (GTD) has already received a lot of positive coverage — and not just on Medium.com. David Allen’s book and concept on how to get things done as efficiently as possible has been widely acclaimed, not least because it can be used to achieve major productivity gains. Allen…