320: Defining the Higher Horizons

Projects, Actions, and even Areas of Focus and Responsiblity are pretty easy to define. The higher horizons, not so much. In this episode, we talk about the higher horizons, how we've developed them, and how we use them to guide our life's work. Definitely a great listen if you're struggling with the higher horizons... and just know that we all have, so you're not alone!

Resources from the call:

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• Making It All Work by David Allen

• Ready For Anything by David Allen

• Start With Why by Simon Sinek

• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Riuz

• Mazlow's Hierarchy of Needs

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The by Dr. Stephen R. Covey

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318: A Meander Through GTD®

318: A Meander Through GTD®

We had some fun just wandering around without a set topic in this episode. We talked about all sorts of stuff — system bankruptcy, dealing with backlog, someday/maybe management, collaboration on projects and shared task management, system tweaking, areas of focus, horizons of focus, and everything in between... Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• FacileThings

• OmniFocus

• Nirvana

• Todoist

• TeuxDeux

• Matt D'avella Video @15:05 (warning: rabbit hole!!)

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• Making It All Work by David Allen

• Ready For Anything by David Allen

• GTD® Shop

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen (Abridged Audio Book)

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316: Hard Edges in Action Lists

One of the tricky things in keeping hard edges in a task management system is capturing and processing projects and tasks without enough clarity around them. Sometimes our verbs seem actionable, but might be a bit vague in reality. Same with next actions which might actually be a project. In this episode we dive into these ideas and the friction they cause in our systems and look at solutions to bring clarity and engagement. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• FacileThings

• Todoist Made Simple Facebook Group

• 25 Productivity Tips by Augusto Pinaud

• Unschedule, The by Dr Neil Fiore

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

• Todoist

• Nirvana

• OmniFocus

• Asian Efficiency

• MacSparky

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309: Experience with GTD®

In this episode we share our experiences with practicing the GTD® methodology through the years. The benefits we've experienced, the things we love about it, some of the tweaks we've made over time, and why we've stuck with it. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• Nested Folders podcast

• Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World by David Allen, Mike Williams, and Mark Wallace

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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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274: Mindfulness: Being Present

In this episode we talk about mindfulness and being present in our worlds. We dive into what causes the friction to take you out of mindfulness and tips on how to get back to being mindful. We take a bit of a journey on this one. I think you'll love it!

Resources from the call:

• SaneBox (I've been using SaneBox personally since 2011, so I highly recommend it! 🙂)

• 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Method

• Wim Hof Method

• Peace is Every Step - The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh

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271: Tactics to Deal with Overwhelm

We talk about dealing with overwhelm in this episode. Not just system or task overwhelm, but everything from a higher level perspective. This one is juicy and goes a little deep. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Cal Newport

• Essentialism by Greg McKeown

• Quitter app

• RescueTime app

• 25 Productivity Tips by Augusto Pinaud

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265: Workspace & Workflows

Are you a Mac or a PC? 😉 In this call, we talk about the comfort with our systems and how they become second nature and the impact of having to change to a new system. Lots of laughs and good times! Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Now Habit, The by Neil Fiore, PH.D

• Mac vs PC

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248: Motivation with GTD

How do you keep yourself inspired to manage your tasks using GTD®? In this episode of GTDVSG, we talk about our motivation — today, as well as, when we first began using GTD. Lots of great tips for newbies and veterans alike! So, how do you keep motivated with your system?

Resources from the call:

• The Getting Things Done Workbook; 10 Moves to Stress-free Productivity by David Allen and Brandon Hall

• Getting Things Done by David Allen (audio version)

• The Two-Minute Rule

• Making It All Work by David Allen

• Getting Things Done® Podcast

• Weekly Review

• Getting Your Inbox to Zero

• OmniFocus

• Wrike

• Trello

• Basecamp

• Omnifocus - Template scripts

• ToDo.ist

• Evernote

• Horizons of Focus

• Bullet Journal

• Your Why 

• What does Wild Success look like?

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238: There Are No Problems, Only Projects

Join us for a dive into one of the main topics of the GTD Summit — “There are no problems, only projects”.

We got all philosophical on this one! It’s a fun listen! Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Natural Planning Model

• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

• Albert Ellis

• A Guide To Rational Living by Albert Ellis, PH D and Robert A Harper, PH D

• Stoicism Philosophy

• The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

• Marshall Goldsmith article “Be Happy"

• Buddhist principle of non-self “Anatta"

• Audio Dharma

• Insight Hour

• Premeditation Malorum

• Tim Ferris Ted Talk on Fear-Setting

• Aaron T Beck- father of cognitive therapy

• Discourses of Epictetus

• Enchiridion of Epictetus

• Seneca’s Letters

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

• Marcus Aurelius

• Brené Brown books

• Brené Brown’s The Call To Courage on Netflix [trailer]

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Special thanks to Joost Gabriels for assistance with resources for the call.