Posts Tagged ‘david-allen’

GTD Refresh, Part 5: Building the Weekly Review Habit

At the very beginning of David Allen’s recorded lecture, Getting Things Done Fast, he tells his audience that the most important but single most difficult part of becoming more productive is making time every week for a weekly review. Most important because this couple of hours of “time out” once a week is where virtually all the GTD magic happens – it’s where we make sure… Continue reading

June 19 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: david-allen, gtd, gtd-refresh, weekly review, work | 22 comments»

GTD Refresh: Getting My Head Together

The last year was a hard one for me, in virtually every area of my life. Even my successes -- and there have been several -- have come at the cost of greater stress and a more and more difficult to balance schedule.

While I have managed to adapt and develop ways of keeping everything on track and moving forward, each new pressure -- whether on my time… Continue reading

February 16 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: areas-of-focus, david-allen, getting things done, gtd, gtd-refresh, making-it-all-work, mind mapping, mindmap, mission, personal productivity, system, vision | 19 comments»

Book Review: David Allen’s “Making It All Work” (Part 3 of 3)

The second major theme in David Allen’s Making It All Work is “perspective”. (The first major theme, “control”, is discussed in part two of this review.) This part of the book expands greatly on the “Horizons of Focus” to which Allen commits only nine pages in the original Getting Things Done. Getting perspective means two things for Allen. First, and less importantly, it means consciously sorting your priorities before… Continue reading

February 9 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, book, david-allen, gtd, life, making-it-all-work, personal productivity, review, work | 2 comments»

Book Review: David Allen’s “Making It All Work” (Part 2 of 3)

Note: I decided that I'd better make this three parts instead of the originally-planned two. Allen's work is, of course, central to the whole field of personal productivity, so it's worth really diving into it. Don't miss Part 1 here. At the center of Making It All Work is a renewed emphasis on control -- effectively managing the work in your life -- and perspective -- aligning your work… Continue reading

February 6 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, book, david-allen, gtd, life, making-it-all-work, personal productivity, review, work | 6 comments»

Book Review: David Allen’s “Making It All Work” (Part 1 of 3)

December saw the release of David Allen’s Making It All Work:Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life, Allen’s long-awaited follow-up to his classic Getting Things Done (Ready for Anything, published in 2004, acts more as a companion to Getting Things Done than a sequel). Making It All Work seems to have been written with the primary goal of addressing some of the the… Continue reading

February 4 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, book, david-allen, gtd, life, making-it-all-work, personal productivity, review, work | 11 comments»

Toward a New Vision of Productivity, Part 8: Planning for Life

This is the eighth part of a 12-part series I am posting from the end of December and into January 2009, examining the current understanding of productivity and where the concept might be heading in the future. I invite Lifehack’s

January 12 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: david-allen, goal, goal setting, gtd, life, mind-like-water, plan, planning | 5 comments»