Getting Things Done

Join David Allen for a conversation with Roy Whitten and Scott Roy. Their just-published book is Decision Intelligence Selling. It's not just for those in sales, but for anyone who realizes that persuading and motivating others is part of life. Of the book, David says, "Whether you're in sales or simply in life, this is a must-read. Roy and Scott have written a new manual for sales training ... a page-turner for us all in leveraging our relationships to everyone's advantage." You can learn more about the book and their work on the Whitten and Roy Partnership website.

You can watch this entire conversation from September 2020 at GTD Connect.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It's easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You'll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won't find anywhere else.

If you already know you'd like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you'd like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what's included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen's exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen has reconnected with Kevin Wilde, for a discussion about learning, leadership, and coachability. Kevin describes how he heard about GTD, and his success with making it a part of the culture at General Mills. His mission in the last few years has been to dive deeper into the science and practical application of leadership coachability. He has found that leaders who plateau below their potential have one thing in common: They stop seeking feedback so they can improve. You can find out more about Kevin's current work on on the coachability of leaders on his website, The Coachable Leader. And you can listen to David's 2007 conversation with Kevin, during his time as Chief Learning Officer for General Mills.

David Allen interviewed Daniel Levitin several years ago after the publication of The Organized Mind. In this interview, David talks with Daniel about his new book, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives. They begin by discussing the neuroscientific basis for GTD. Then Daniel explains that there are two principles from GTD that are crucial for successful aging.

You can watch the entire conversation from July 2020 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It's easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You'll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won't find anywhere else.

If you already know you'd like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you'd like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what's included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen's exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

With a PhD in sleep science, Dan Pardi has plenty to say about the relationship between sleep and productivity. In this wide-ranging interview, David Allen talks with Dan about how sleep, rest, and mental acuity affect productivity.

Dan's approach is that health is about organizing yourself, effectively managing the project of your body. He's a fan of working from lists, in order to match mental energy to the type of task. In various places during this interview, he talks about his tools, as well as tips for improving productivity and performance.

You can watch the entire conversation from March 2019 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It's easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You'll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won't find anywhere else.

If you already know you'd like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you'd like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what's included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen's exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Our October Office Hour went into detail on the Capture, Clarify, and Relect steps. We also discussed procrastination and its causes. That led us to consider closed vs flexible task lists.

You can watch the entire Office Hour from October 2025 at GTD Connect.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It's easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You'll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won't find anywhere else.

If you already know you'd like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you'd like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what's included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen's exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Michael Keithley has been focusing on productivity since when paper planners were the only options. He became an early adopter of digital tools, and still has a technology graveyard of PDAs and other electronic productivity tools. For GTD, his first digital tool was Evernote, which he still likes for reference. Later he landed on OmniFocus, and has been using it from early on, to the most recent version. He emphasizes that it's important for a digital system to allow for sending an email to the list manager.

You can watch the entire conversation from October 2025 at GTD Connect.

This is an installation and implementation session on the higher Horizons of Focus. We will spend time exploring if anything has your attention at each of the horizons, and will end with integrating the horizons at the project and next action levels.

You can watch this entire webinar from June 2021 on GTD Connect.

During the session, there are sections where you can create or refine what you have on each of the horizons. The prompt questions for each of the horizons are listed below. These sections were about five minutes each in the live webinar. We have edited out those sections of silence for this recording. Please feel free to stop the recording as you reach those sections, and use the prompt questions below to work on each of your horizons. The webinar concluded with these two thoughts:

• Without clear purpose and direction you could easily be busy doing off-course things and wonder why a meaningful life is so elusive
• Getting the right small things done directly contributes to an authentic and meaningful life

HORIZON 5: Purpose and Principles My purpose and principles contribute to my authentic life. Trigger Questions: What gets me up out of bed in the morning? What is most meaningful to me? What, if I am doing or expressing it, makes me feel like I am being who I really am, at my best? When do I feel like I really ?show up?? What really matters to me, in terms of how I live and work? What do I hold as standards for myself, no matter what, in terms of how I am living and working? HORIZON 4: Vision My purpose and principles influence my vision. My vision contributes to my purpose and principles. Trigger Questions: If I were wildly successful fulfilling my purpose, living my principles, what might be true for me, several years from now? What might I be doing? What might I have? What experiences might I be having? Contexts: Career Lifestyle Energy/health Finances Relationships Time horizons: 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? More? HORIZON 3: Goals and Objectives My vision influences my goals and objectives. My goals and objectives contribute to my vision. Trigger Question: Given what?s currently in play, and what I?ve thought about today, what are the things I need to have happen, or would like to have true for me, within the next 12 to 24 months? HORIZON 2: Areas of Focus and Accountability My goals and objectives influence my areas of focus and accountability. My areas of focus and accountability contribute to my goals. Trigger Questions: What are the areas of accountability in my work? What are the areas of focus in my life? HORIZON 1: Projects My areas of focus and accountability influence my projects. My projects contribute to my areas of focus and accountability. GROUND: Calendar/Actions My projects influence my next actions. My next actions contribute to my projects. My next actions get the things that are meaningful to me done.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It's easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You'll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won't find anywhere else.

If you already know you'd like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you'd like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what's included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen's exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

David Allen talks with GTD trainer Justin Hale about his journey with GTD. Justin notes that the journey includes cultivating self-awareness about our habits. He emphasizes the importance of deliberate practice to change behaviors. More than a set of hacks, he considers GTD to be a complete system.

Justin is a trainer with Crucial Learning, as well as the host of the One Productive Minute video series.

You can watch this entire conversation from March 2023 on GTD Connect.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It's easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You'll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won't find anywhere else.

If you already know you'd like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you'd like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what's included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen's exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Creator of the second-best productivity tool for GTD, Eric Mack is grounded in GTD and knowledge management. David Allen and John Forrister recently talked with Eric about his five principles of productivity software design, in the hope that it might inspire future designers to incorporate some of these principles into their applications.

You can watch this entire conversation from March 2023 on GTD Connect.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It's easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You'll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won't find anywhere else.

If you already know you'd like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you'd like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what's included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen's exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

Prachi has an inspiring success story, based on applying the GTD methodology. She began her studies in engineering, and moved on to create a citizen-led movement to mitigate climate change. She exemplifies the value of externalizing visions, goals, and objectives. In addition to a list of projects, she has a values list that she reviews regularly to stay on track with what matters. You can find out more, including how to get the app, at Cool the Globe.

You can watch a video version of this conversation from September 2025 at GTD Connect®.

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This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It's easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You'll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won't find anywhere else.

If you already know you'd like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

If you'd like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what's included and how to get your free trial.

• Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
• GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
• Extensive audio, video, and document library
• Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
• David Allen's exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
• Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.