David Allen
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Nov 1, 2026
Dan MartellHOST
So at agenda is at sign agenda.
Dan MartellHOST
Where does this come from? I read a book called Getting Things Done by David Allen.
Dan MartellHOST
And in there, he talked about the at agenda concept, where what you want to do is for everybody that you interact with frequently in your life, you should have an agenda.
Dan MartellHOST
a doc, that you just add points to their name.
Robert BrokampGUEST
I remember sitting at a Starbucks and you were showing me some of the ways.
Robert BrokampGUEST
And you were one of the people who introduced me to David Allen and his getting things done method, which I found extraordinarily helpful.
David GardnerHOST
As did I.
Robert BrokampGUEST
But the fact is that procrastination has a cost.
Robert BrokampGUEST
So one of the best things I did for my finances and my career and my home life and my marriage is work to become more organized and more productive.
David GardnerHOST
That is fantastic.
David GardnerHOST
And the reason that I love David Allen is because I found myself so in need of being more organized and more productive, especially it was really sort of my mid-30s when my kids are all coming of age a little bit and we're helping run The Fool together and all of us, especially when you end up with a family that starts to kids outnumbering the parents, you start finding that you have to be, I did, you have to be more productive.
David GardnerHOST
You have to be more organized.
Olivia AllenGUEST
that's new business and grow their existing relationships with their clients.
Hillary GaleHOST
Have you read the book Getting Things Done by David Allen? I have, yeah.
Hillary GaleHOST
Okay, as you were talking through, I'm actually about halfway through that book.
Hillary GaleHOST
And as you were talking through, I was like, this is reminding me so much of what David Allen says is part of the reason that we're so overwhelmed is that we have all these inputs coming in all the time, especially in today's age with like LinkedIn and email inboxes, multiple email inboxes, kids stuff, like all of these things.
Hillary GaleHOST
And
Hillary GaleHOST
having to hold all of that in our heads and rely on our brains to remember that is just a huge mental burden.
Joe SuggHOST
You're going to miss the impact.
Scott KinderGUEST
Have you ever read Getting Things Done by David Allen? Incredible book, right? So nothing, David Allen, all copyright, David Allen.
Scott KinderGUEST
He talks in Getting Things Done about horizon levels of effort.
Scott KinderGUEST
And so ground actions are the things you got to do right now today to be successful for the day to be a win, right? but it goes from horizon level one to it's like projects and areas of responsibility, then vision or goals, and then finally your vision, right? And so the point that I'm bringing up here is if you're constantly in ground level activities, level zero, how easy do you think it is to get from level zero through projects, areas of responsibility, vision or vision.
Jarvis JohnsonHOST
I have this book that I read when I was...
Jarvis JohnsonHOST
Well, I have this book that I referenced and read lots of pieces on, which is David Allen's Getting Things Done, The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.
Jarvis JohnsonHOST
When I was so focused on my productivity because I was a tech... mogul trying to maximize my capitalistic output to increase shareholder value.
Jarvis JohnsonHOST
Which is morals.
David FreudbergHOST
I'm David Freudberg.
David FreudbergHOST
On the personal struggle we all wage to make sensible plans, to maintain a big-picture vision, and to clarify our values when we're tested by real life, best-selling author and lecturer David Allen has a word of advice.
David FreudbergHOST
You do all of these things more effectively when you're able to clear your head.
David AllenGUEST
Anybody who's trying to operate at a high-performance level, I mean, think of somebody before they're going to do a concert, a concert pianist before they're going on stage with six million people that are going to listen to what they do.
David AllenGUEST
What they don't want to do is be distracted and they need to have a clear head so that they're fully available to the you know, to the meta talent that may show up when they put themselves into those kind of situations.
David FreudbergHOST
David Allen's roadmap for focus and self-management is known to his legions of devotees as GTD.
David FreudbergHOST
It stands for Getting Things Done, the title of his massively popular book.
David FreudbergHOST
David's newer book, Making It All Work, speaks to the growing audience of people who experience the speed and complexity of our world and can almost feel crushed by it, who crave a way to wrestle it all down and to gain perspective.
Jeff SandersHOST
What do you do? In the past, the answer for me was I would do it, despite the fact that it wasn't part of my focus.
Jeff SandersHOST
That can work in most cases with David Allen's two-minute rule.
Jeff SandersHOST
If you know the book Getting Things Done, the two-minute rule is very popular, which says that if there's any task you can do in less than two minutes, when the idea pops up, you do it right away.
Jeff SandersHOST
What I'm going to tell you is don't do that.
Brian RoseHOST
This keeps you focused and gives you confidence you can achieve each one.
Brian RoseHOST
Next, you'll learn a trick from David Allen, author of Getting Things Done.
Brian RoseHOST
You create concrete action steps for each goal.
Brian RoseHOST
These help you string together a series of wins that move you forward.
John ForresterHOST
And C
Ana Maria GonzalezHOST
is also by definition what David Allen has kind of written about what a project is.
Ana Maria GonzalezHOST
It's nothing more than a multi-step outcome that can be completed within one year.
Ana Maria GonzalezHOST
And the one year can be 13 months and the one year can be 10 months.
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Ana Maria GonzalezHOST
It's also known as look into.
Ana Maria GonzalezHOST
There's a verb in your outcome verbs that you'll see that reads look into.
Ana Maria GonzalezHOST
Or R&D, which is the shorthand for research and development that David Allen talks about so much.
Ana Maria GonzalezHOST
So get clarity, look into R&D.
Kyle StanleyHOST
There's always going to be something else to do.
Martin MendelsonHOST
Never going to happen, right? So for those who know my work know I'm a big follower of David Allen.
Martin MendelsonHOST
And David Allen wrote a book called Getting Things Done.
Martin MendelsonHOST
And the idea is it's not that everything's going to get done at the end of a given day, but everything's accounted for.
Martin MendelsonHOST
Because what stresses people out is Is holding things in their head going, oh, my God, I got to remember to do X, Y or Z.
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