Category Archives: Getting Things Done

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Today’s blog post is a special highlight post for any new visitors, particularly if you’re coming from Liz Strauss’s Blog-to Show. Welcome to 7P Productions!
This blog is about achieving goals and dreams. The articles are sometimes light and sometimes a little on the heavy side, but I always aim to provide […]

Five Steps to Get Back on the GTD Track

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You heard about this new personal productivity system that everyone’s talking about called Getting It Done. You decided to adopt this system and you found that it’s indeed effective in taming the deluge of tasks and information. You took David Allen’s system, tweaked it to suit your style, and you’re functioning like a […]

Thunderbird and Lightning, Very Very Frightening!

For those of us who are warriors of the Information Age, we use the email and calendar applications like a sword and shield. For the apps, the usual suspects include Microsoft with MS Outlook and Google with Gmail and Google Calendar (gCal). Because I do much of my work on Linux, I cannot use MS […]

7 Mistakes to Avoid for the GTD Beginner

They call it the “breaking-in” period. When you buy a new car, you’re supposed to allow for the first few weeks for the engine to have all its part work smoothly. Don’t push the engine too hard; drive consistently to get used to how responsive the gas pedal and the brakes are; check […]

GTD for the Rest of Us

Earlier I predicted that someone will create an alternative to the Getting Things Done system for the right-brain people and the creator will become a regularly recurring guest at Oprah. It looks like at some level, this prediction has come true.
In the latest issue of Oprah’s periodical called O Magazine, there is an article […]