GTD^® is the shorthand brand for “Getting Things Done^®“, the groundbreaking work-life management system by David Allen that provides concrete solutions for transforming overwhelm and uncertainty into an integrated system of stress free productivity.

GTD is a powerful method to manage commitments, information, and communication. It is the result of thirty years of consulting services, private coaching, training, and organizational programs with millions of people internationally. It has earned a reputation as the gold standard in personal and organizational productivity.

GTD enables greater performance, capacity and innovation. It alleviates the feeling of overwhelm, instilling focus, clarity and confidence.

Step by step you will learn how to:

• Capture anything and everything that has your attention and concern
• Define actionable things into concrete next steps and successful outcomes
• Organize information in the most streamlined way, in appropriate categories, based on how and when you need to access it
• Keep current and “ahead of the game” with appropriately frequent reviews
• Keep track of the bigger picture while managing the small details
• Make trusted choices about what to do in any given moment

Decades of in the field research and practice of GTD led to the publishing of the international bestseller “Getting Things Done”.  Published in over 28 languages, TIME magazine heralded it as the defining self-help business book of its time.

For some of us, it will be to diet or stop smoking maybe. Whilst for me, I’d like to do a weekly review, weekly! I have been an interested student of Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen for some time, but, one of the hardest things I’ve found has been the weekly review.

Today I spent 5 hours doing my first real weekly review, hopefully future reviews will be a lot quicker! The past 12 days have also been spent on “my system” and that’s for another post.

So have a great New Year!

I have been using Omnifocus for a good year, but the fact that my work environment is Windows has made the use of the Mac based Omnifocus unavailable. If they had a Web-based interface this would help.

So I have been researching an new system, and at the moment, the leader has to be Toodledo. it is mainly web based but has clients for all platforms, Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and many more. It now also has Locations that on the iPhone alert you as you approach that location.

The key to any good GTD system is the system itself, It needs to be simple, quick to use and most importantly reliable.  Over the past year I have been using Omnifocus and although the software is very good with many useful features. The fact it only works on Apple products has become a issue. Sure, I’m a true Apple fan, I have a MacBook, iPhone, iPad so the system works great in the personal environment. The problem comes at Work, being a Windows environment and that has been the sticking point. I don’t have an easy way to access my system, OmniFocus, on my work computer. Yes I can access my next actions via my iPhone and I can email next actions into the system, but that seems to add a layer that is just to much. A good system has to be seamless, working for you and not you working it!

To that end I’m now in the middle of finding a new system.