Getting Things Done

So at agenda is at sign agenda.

Where does this come from? I read a book called Getting Things Done by David Allen.

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.

a doc, that you just add points to their name.

I remember sitting at a Starbucks and you were showing me some of the ways.

And you were one of the people who introduced me to David Allen and his getting things done method, which I found extraordinarily helpful.

As did I.

But the fact is that procrastination has a cost.

David Allen, a past guest on this podcast.

Anybody can Google if you want.

He, by the way, is the genius behind Getting Things Done.

That's the title of the book that Robert and I have both appreciated.

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Have you ever read Getting Things Done by David Allen? Incredible book, right? So nothing, David Allen, all copyright, David Allen.

He talks in Getting Things Done about horizon levels of effort.

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.

And then finally your vision is your goal is your vision.

David Allen's roadmap for focus and self-management is known to his legions of devotees as GTD.

It stands for Getting Things Done, the title of his massively popular book.

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.

It starts, he says, with methodically collecting and sorting out our loose ends, from that email we haven't answered to the family project that keeps crying out for our attention.

I think, I'm sure, if you've met people that you would call spiritual, perhaps with a small s, the people who seem to have that sort of essence about them that seems to be peaceful is also a very dynamic event, and they're also very involved in the mundane things of life.

Again, We are multileveled human beings involved in lots of levels of this game.

We're talking with David Allen, originator of the Getting Things Done Method and author of Making It All Work.

For more information on this segment, The Horizons of Attention, check our website, humanmedia.org. Let's talk about the process of getting perspective at the higher altitudes of our life, the place where we ponder the big questions of why we're really doing things.

This keeps you focused and gives you confidence you can achieve each one.

Next, you'll learn a trick from David Allen, author of Getting Things Done.

You create concrete action steps for each goal.

These help you string together a series of wins that move you forward.