GTD to Simplify Your Life!
One of my personal interests is to hack my life, both professional and personal. My goal is to achieve more, in less time while enjoying the life itself.
But as true perfectionist and service minded personality, I couldn't say no to requests fired at me or opportunities passing by. The result was many commitments, of which some had to be disappointed leading to frustration. In 2008, I was kind of stressed out. My brain was working over-time to remember all commitments I've made, eating out time to relax and enjoy. Time itself wasn't a issue, I had just as many time as other people have (365/24/7), but I felt I had too many commitments, rushing to accomplish some, while procrastinating on others. It was time for a change!
By that time, I've read about David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology, a true personal management system instead of a time-management system. I started with some basics, after reading a few articles. More on this journey will follow probably in another blog.
Since most people do not know the GTD methodology and how it can simplify your life, I would like to present you a concise and stunning presentation about the GTD basics I discovered on Twitter.
Enjoy this article?
Follow Maurice!
Tag Cloud
Archives
- February 2012 (1)
- April 2011 (2)
- November 2010 (1)
- July 2010 (1)
About Maurice Heuveling
This website will tell some tales of my personal life. Whenever I've got something interesting to share, I will post it here.
Please take a tour at the website to discover who I am.
Born on March 20th, 1978 in Arnhem (NL), the city I currently live
Married to Miranda Nieboer, son Mees (2007) and son Jip (2010).
July 13th, 2010 - 20:52
Maurice – thank you so much for including my slide deck as part of your first entry in your new blog! I’m extremely humbled by the gesture and I do hope to see many more entries in the future!! Cheers and here’s to spreading the word about simplifying our lives a bit more!
July 14th, 2010 - 21:30
Daniel,
Thanks for your reply! This was just a very short story, primarily to find out how blogging works. Currently I’m working on a bigger blog, related to my profession, but in upcoming blogs it might be very likely I will use presentation inspired by what I’ve learned from your presentations!
Keep up the good work!