345: Jumping Back In

Coming back is hard. Michelle's COVID brain fog sparked this one, and we dive into jumping back into GTD® after time away, whether that's a sick week, a vacation, or falling off the wagon entirely. We share tricks for taming the email backlog, doing a mind sweep, setting up out-of-office rules, and leaning into your GTD® strengths instead of your weaknesses. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Post-it® App (for capturing paper notes digitally)

• Clear (the swipe-based to-do app one participant uses for on-the-fly lists)

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333: Projects vs GTD Projects - Revamping Your System

Projects. What's the difference between project management projects and GTD projects? How are they similar? In this episode, we take a look at what exactly is a project. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Thomas Frank Video Project Tracker Template for Notion

• SOPs

• TextExpander (available for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Chrome!!)

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302: Play & GTD®

We all experience friction in our systems from time to time. One way to look at this is as an opportunity to make some improvements to our systems and workflows. In this episode, we talk about what that looks like and some things we've discovered over time... as well as, some tools that might be useful. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Jeff Su - You Tube Channel

• Pleexy - Evernote & Todoist integration

• Office 365

• IFTTT

• Zapier

• Evernote

• PDFCombo

• PDFExploder

• 1Password

• Last Pass

• Roboform

• MsgFiler for Apple Mail

• Microsoft Project

• Smartsheet

• Launchbar

• Alfred for Mac

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289: Year End Planning

A deep dive into Annual Reviews -- the good, the bad, the ugly.😉 Enjoy!!

Resources from the call:

• James Clear Method

• Bonus find: James Clear Habit Journal

• "Clean Sweep Program” checklist

• SMART Goals

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287: Checklists

This episode is all about checklists!!! Such a great listen! Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Checklist Manifesto, The by Atul Gawande

• GTD® Weekly Review Checklist

• GTD® Incomplete Trigger List

• Organizing From the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern

• Curt Clifton OmniFocus Scripts

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286: Tool Switching & System Tweaking

We started out thinking about tool switching and then found ourselves diving into all the tweaks we do/can do to our systems. Shiny things!! We talk about checklists, various tools, and share how we use them. Lots of fun! Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Evernote

• David Allen on GTD® and Dealing with Interruptions

• Checklist Manifesto, The by Atul Gawande

• Getting Things Done by David Allen

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281: When is Enough?

Sometimes life hits you with a whole bunch of projects all at the same time. How do you deal with the overwhelm? How do you know when to say "when"? In this episode, we share our experiences and how we've handled these situations. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Getting Things Done Fast seminar

• GTD® Weekly Review Checklist

• GTD® Horizons of Focus

• Marie Kondo

• Essentialism by Greg McKeown

• Organizing From the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern

• Time Management from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern

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277: What is a Next Action?

Oh! This is a good one! An existential question : what is a next action? Interesting how it evolves for everyone over time. And so many great ideas on how we manage, organize, and get them out of the inbox. And how we're going to re-train the world (kidding... maybe...)

Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Cornell Note Taking system

• OmniFocus scripts by Curt Clifton

• OmniFocus scripts by Dan Byler

• Checklist Manifesto, The by Atul Gawande

• BLUF

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246: Focusing on Your Goals for the New Year

The end of the year is one of the natural points for reflection, of the past, the present, and the future. End of decades have an especially weighty feel, as well! In this episode, the GTDVSG talks about reflection and looking ahead at our goals for the immediate and distant future. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• 12 Week Year, The by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

• Start With Why by Simon Sinek

• My Three Words by Chris Brogan

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242: Transitions

Today we talk transitions, like leaving a job, starting a job, moving, etc. Transitions are also a great time to take a look at your higher horizons and see if there are bigger shifts at play in your world, or if maybe they should be. We dive into multiple levels of the conversation in this episode. Enjoy!

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