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Getting Things Done Background

Posted in Reference on November 25th, 2008 by ben – 2 Comments

I am a big fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) system for personal productivity.  I anticipate several of my upcoming posts to be on this subject, so I’m including this post as boilerplate.

I’m not going to make this another blog about GTD.  Nor am I going to make this post a reference post.  Here are a few links that are relevant

A few things about GTDers

  • The evangelize heavily
  • They get frustrated at folks that don’t practice GTD, since things don’t get done as quickly, and it takes more effort to pick of the slack of folks that are too overwhelmed
  • They like to focus on tools.  There are endless blog posts about the dangers of spending so much time focusing on your system, rather that the habits of using what you have.  

I’m not a poster child for GTD.  I’ve never been completely successful at the full implementation of the ideas. In 2.5 years, I’ve done maybe 3 weekly reviews.  Over the last 2 months, I’ve achieved email Inbox Zero maybe 15 times, while my physical inbox has never been empty.  Despite all that, I’ve always held it out there as a personal goal to achieve “mind like water.”