2 posts tagged “gtd”

Via Merlin Mann over at 43 Folders, this is my favorite run-down of organizing tools.

Two years ago, I decided to give David Allen's Getting Things Done method a try. For years, I had been following the Franklin-Covey planning method, though somewhat loosely. I wasn't entirely satisfied with it, so I was open to a different approach.

At the start of January last year, I wrote about my first year of Getting Things Done over on my professional blog. In re-reading this post this morning, most I what I wrote still holds true. I go through periods of more and less compliance with my organizing routines, but overall I have achieved a fairly steady (and satisfied) state with it.

Well, I haven't read the whole Bible but in terms of something that has had the most life impact, that would have to be it. Actually, for Father's Day I got my Dad James Earl Jones Reads the Bible.

James Earl Jones Reads the Bible

(And no, it's not a "Darth Vadar" reading of the Bible!) At almost 80 my Dad's still working and has an hour round-trip commute each day. The Bible CDs were a huge hit.

But aside from the Bible, I would have to say David Allen's Getting Things Done.

Getting Things Done : The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

I have a long history with time management methods and while I appreciate the Franklin-Covey life visioning/planning aspects, that daily A, B, C priority stuff never really worked for me. I never felt like I had my chops down on just, well, getting day-to-day stuff done. GTD has made a huge improvement, not so much in the quantity of how much I do, but in clarity and focus.