1. Keith Bohanna
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GTD Training, Waterford Institute of Technology
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Getting Things Done® system for personal productivity.
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2. Collect
Process
Organise
Mastering Workflow
Review
Do
Overview
50k Purpose and Core Values
40k Vision
30k 1 to 2 year goals and objectives
20k Areas of Responsibility
Horizons of Focus
10k Current Projects
Next Actions
3. Piles of Paper
Physical Inbox
Physical Stuff
Notes
Email inbox
Workflow - Collecting Any todo lists?
Linkedin
Digital Stuff
Twitter
Other internal systems
Mind Dump
Mental Stuff
4. Working through your collected Stuff and deciding what to do with it
Workflow - Process or Clarify
Do it - less than 2 minutes
Decide on very next action Delegate it
Yes
Defer - put into system to be organised
Only 2 possible outcomes Actionable?
Throw it out
Put in a pile to be filed as reference
No Need to be reminded at a future date?
Put it where you will be reminded
5. Making sense of your processed piles
Project Support
Physical Filing Reference
Calendar
Next Actions list
Workflow - Organise
Projects list
Bringing them into Trusted Systems Waiting for
Someday maybe
Next Actions will need A project
A context
For actionable items
a Next Action
Projects will need
A defined outcome
6. Weekly - or as often as appropriate
A KEY element of GTD - and the one most likely to be ignored
Workflow - Review Gather everything into Collection Box
Zero email inbox, notes, etc
Mind sweep
Mark off completed
Review your next action list Update as required
to pick up outstanding actions etc
Review recent calendar
Actions to be taken
to pick up actions required etc
Review upcoming calendar
Review waiting for list
Review project list
7. The point of it all :-)
Now you get to decide what to do. Or not
Workflow - Doing
pre determined
ones that just show up
Actions can be
defining your work
context
Time
Energy
You decide what you do based upon
Priority