It’s all considered work by GTD standards. It all takes the same amount of “physical RAM” in your brain so it all can be treated as work, everything from “create the TPS reports” to “buy dog treats for the puppies”. Of course, you can segregate work tasks to home tasks and projects, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to. It is all work in the eyes of your system. GTD doesn’t care whether your work is professional or personal. It spans personal and professional works. Yes, they may work for some others but we have to see that without GTD most of these systems wouldn’t exist in their current form making GTD a sort of pillar of productivity systems. Allen’s system, not completely different ideas on how to handle your work. So, it appears that the alternatives to GTD are just modified versions of Mr. Agile Results then adds a top layer of making sure that you are geting results during your week, which really is a modified weekly review that Mr. It was the complete system that GTD offers me that these alternatives didn’t cover.įor instance, Getting Results the Agile Way is very interesting, but if you look into it more you will see that it is heavily based on GTD core principles. I’ve tried most of these other alternatives (albeit not for terribly long periods of time) and I always felt like something was missing. Allen’s model, or don’t encompass the bigger picture of work and life allowing many important things to fall through the cracks. The thing is that almost all of these either take things from Mr. There are some alternatives out there to GTD like Master Your Workday Now (also the One Minute Todo List), GSD, Getting Results the Agile Way, ZTD, and many others. The alternatives to GTD always have something missing. ⌄ Scroll down to continue reading article ⌄ 3. Allen decided that approaching your work from a bottom up approach was the fastest way to make yourself more productive as quickly as possible. Rather than doing what many productivity gurus did before him, Mr. He then put these principals together and created a model for productivity. What we can give him his credit for is identifying the things that busy professionals and humans do to get more done with the least amount of effort and stress. It’s an all-in-one creative model with all the essential concepts. This is only with the help from the models that Mr. But after some time, it becomes second nature to the practitioner. GTD takes time and practice to understand and use. Once one settles in with GTD, collects and organizes things into the right lists, and then reviews it consistently the confusion will go away. Mostly this is due to lack of completing proper weekly reviews. Some people get stuck and confused with having so many lists and things on those lists. ![]() The idea of next actions and projects can be foreign (although welcomed!) to someone that has used daily todo lists to accomplish things in the past. ⌄ Scroll down to continue reading article ⌄ While giving yourself two full days to clean out and clean up your life would be awesome, you can get started by collecting and processing as you go. I remember reading that and think, “how in the hell is that even possible? I’ve got too much stuff to do and I want to get it done now!” Allen’s book suggests getting some gear to get things started but you don’t have to do it, you can start GTDing with a crappy notebook and pen.Īnother thing GTD suggests is taking a full two days to collect and process everything in your personal and professional life. ![]() “You mean I have to go out and buy a labeler, filing cabinet, sticky notes, some list making apps, and better pens?” No, not unless you want to. One of the main reasons that people give up on GTD, especially at first, is that there seems to be a lot to it. It’s difficult to grok at first but will become your second nature. ![]() I’m here to tell you that the GTD is the best productivity system because it can be adapted to fit your lifestyle, has the over-arching models that you can use for a lifetime, and contains two secrets weapons of personal productivity. The system has helped me and my team here at Lifehack get their most important work done on a daily, monthly, weekly, and “lifely” basis.īut, what if (this is a big what if) there was something better out there than GTD for increasing your productivity while decreasing your life’s overwhelm? What if there is something better and fits the way that the knowledge worker’s lifestyle works? David Allen’s Getting Things Done book has been around for over ten years now and has totally changed the way that many knowledge workers work and play.
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