Archives for the 'effective' Category

Results of 1 Year of GTD [Getting Things Done]

After consistently applying GTD for close to one year now, I can safely conclude that valuable and lasting productivity habits have formed in my life.
Like many other people, I have studied and used several productivity systems. I picked up various useful principles and techniques from them, but none of them seemed to fully apply to [...]

7 October 2007 | GTD, General, Personal, Process, Productivity, Professional, benefits, capture, effective, focus, habits, organize, outcome, results | No Comments

5 Tips for Fast and Effective Learning [Getting Things Done]

This post originally appeared about one month ago as a guest post on Gearfire.
If only I had known a little bit more about accelerated and effective learning when I was still a student! That would have saved me a lot of frustration and, most of all, precious time.
Fortunately, learning and learning to learn well, will [...]

7 September 2007 | GTD, General, Learning, Productivity, accelerated, brain, effective, efficient, fast, memory, speedreading | No Comments

Effective Listening, Writing and Thinking [Getting Things Done]

One irreversible and positive consequence of applying GTD to your life is the fundamental change in the way you listen to people, write down your notes and think about things in general.
This is not something you will notice right after getting started with GTD. It will take weeks, perhaps months, of discipline and practice with [...]

9 August 2007 | GTD, General, Writing, action, effective, listening, mind, outcome, project, ras, thinking | No Comments

18 Tricks to Instantly Improve your GTD System [Getting Things Done]

I am constantly trying to become better at GTD. Blogging (and reading other blogs) has been one excellent way for me to do that. Thinking about how I did GTD in the very beginning and how I’m doing GTD right now, I have come up with no less than 18 tricks that I have successfully [...]

7 August 2007 | GTD, General, Process, actions, collect, do, effective, efficient, improve, next, organize, phases, review, tricks, workflow | No Comments

Top 10 Benefits Of GTD [Getting Things Done]

It is easy to get completely obsessed with your GTD implementation, tweaking and tuning constantly to get it just right. It is even more easy to find yourself drooling over the latest gadgets and web 2.0 GTD applications out there. Perhaps you find yourself going through the motions that are supposed to make you get [...]

11 July 2007 | GTD, General, Goals, benefits, commitment, control, creative, effective, freedom, organized, productive, relaxed, successful | No Comments