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I got to know David Seah‘s work while I was surfing in search of ‘time tracking’ info. I did not know exactly what, but I felt that my productivity system had become a bit stale, clunky maybe.

Seah’s creative forms had nothing to do with what I was looking for, but they turned to be exactly what I needed. (more…)

The law of attraction, as described in Rhonda Byrne’s ‘The Secret’, affirms that we attract what we think of, so we must forge images of what we want, instead of continuously filling our mind with what is not, what should not be, what is a pity, etc. Apparently, the universe pretty much (more…)

‘Nothing drains productivity more than a list with mingled actionable and non-actionable items’, is one example of those simple but not self-evident snippets continuously present in the Getting Things Done methodology, and which can have an enormous impact in your life. (more…)

The Getting Things Done methodology is efficient and complete by itself, besides widely successful around the world. It does not require my explanations or my poetry. But that’s the way I work: I spread enthusiasm as I go, just like a locomotive spreads steam (admiration is a way of participation, and thus good for your soul).

I recently had my second GTD birthday (more…)

“What was that folder thing you told me of?”, she asked me. And the rest, as it is usually said, is history. (more…)

It’ll never get enough said: David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology to get organized is based upon principles that are simple, but not evident (for more about GTD, check out my GTD First Aid Kit series, or the ‘GTD’ tag at the right column).

One of those principles is dividing lists into (more…)

The problem

GTD fan as I am, I usually put a strong brain effort at the planning stage of a project, so I can later enter ‘executive mode’, following my self-instructions in a Robocop-like manner. Working like that guarantees (more…)

The correct adoption of the Getting Things Done methodology, besides a boost in our outcomes, can also cause some important psychic side effects. David Allen himself frequently acknowledges it, sometimes (more…)

I feel terrible. My throat is spiked with thorns, I have this intermittent pain in my articulations, I’m cold, I’m hot. A few minutes ago, I went into the shower before removing my soaked sheets, after a night of what only very generously could be named as “sleep”. I remember a moment after shower, when I (more…)

Say you love David Allen… (O.K., say what you want). Long and steep is the road from messy to productive, but gratifications are spread like sweet fruits all along the way. It is not about upgrading; it about growing. Once you get  it, Allen’s Getting Things Done system is a very tight tool to use; as he himself states in “Making it all work”, with a delicious lack of false humility, (more…)