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David Allen, author of the wildly popular book Getting Things Done, and the almost cult-like GTD system, is my guest for a recent episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast.

I think David’s pretty brilliant, although you would probably never get him to admit it – his brilliance comes, in my opinion, from his consistent message that time can’t be managed, it just is. Everyone tries to do this and that to time manage when GTD suggests all that you can do is decide what’s important and make it easy to do that, without having the stress of trying to keep it all in your head.

The GTD system has taken form in all manner of software, planning tools and templates, but the beauty of it is that it’s so simple all you really need is a pen, paper and some folders.

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Posted by: John Jantsch on Apr 28, 08 | 12:12 pm
Category: Marketing Calendar, Small Business, Tools I Use, Vision | Tags: , David Allen, Getting things done, GTD

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JudyAnn Lorenz

I listened to that broadcast, having been familiar with David's process.

It is very sensible; we will only have application problems when we are being obstinate about being sensible and being tentative about our business

Kevin Crenshaw - Productivity

Unfortunately, Listible is broken much of the time and its GTD software list is overrun with spam. This list is researched and moderated, 102+ titles so far:

Comparison of GTD Software

It even tells you which so-called "GTD" software to avoid and why.

Sean Burke

Time Management is Dead. Priority Investment - that is where I see leaders heading. Pick a very, very small number of priorities (like 2) and invest your time on getting them done. So often times, people put together plans that have weak measures or measures that can't be derived from their current systems so they start out to fail. Keep it simple - decide what is important - establish how to measure it - assign one person to own it - update progress - learn - repeat (with better results expected).

Derek Bough

I read David's book two months ago. In the first 3 days I removed two boxes of clutter from my office and had everything whittled down to an "inbox" that consisted of a manila folder about an inch thick. I also started using Vitalist, which is an online GTD-based tool to manage all of my tasks, ticklers, projects, etc. Within a week, I had "emptied my head".

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