Two mins on the positive impact of GTD workflow

My two minutes on this topic

Before adopting a GTD approach although I felt was very effective I was constantly stressed. My head was constantly busy

GTD allows me to dump a lot of my work into a trusted system. When it works I'm super efficient and very relaxed

Don't get me wrong. I fall fall off the wagon occasionally - but I've learned that that's ok. It's reasonable easy to get back on

Add this to approach to a team. We're all more productive, less stressed and hopefully have a little more fun

Yes. I still work too hard. Yes I still do too many hours and yes my life isn't perfect. But I do know it's better for GTD

GTD probably allows me to cope with the bad stuff more effectively. The bumps aren't so bad

My workflow tools

• MacBook Pro
• iPad2 (not the fatPad)
• iPhone4 (5 when that comes out)
• Omnifocus for Mac
• Omnifocus for iOS
• Evernote
• Omnioutliner
• Omniplan
• Omnigraffle

A rough plan and a few objectives

Didn't do too well with the new and improved approach to blogging. But in the interest of perseverance I thought I'd start again

My new plan looks something like this:

Workflow

1. Thoughts on the positive influence of the approach I'm advocating
2. Efficiency vs Effectiveness
3. A case study I have from work and some reflections

Networking

1. Current position (A whinge)
2. My thoughts on a new project I've created to address this
3. Updates against this project
4. Thoughts on personal networking (And the dreaded social networking)

As a rule I'll try and keep to two minute intense sprints at writing when the mood takes me and a weekly update with this rough structure

We'll see

Long absence - but I'm back

After a long absence I think I'm back to jotting down some loose 'credit risk' musings and general thoughts on work

My first observation is that the absence from this blog was caused by an imbalance in my work:life balance

Too much focus upon work put me into a poor place personally. Very little attention paid to Personal or Health areas within my life meant that, unsurprisingly, I'd not accomplished some unconscious goals and this was frustrating me

See this link for a reference that has help me become motivated again to address some of my personal and family goals

As such. I shall be using this blog (and a second less business focused blog) to keep focus upon my progress in the following business areas:

• Workflow : GTD and the positive influence this approach has upon business areas that are poorly performing
• Networking: Not my strongest area professionally. But an area I've decided to focus upon. I will be tracking approaches, thoughts and successes / failures here

I plan to update this blog weekly on progress in these areas and will post a proposed outline in the next few days

iPad

And add an iPad with Citrix link to the mix...

.. I'm sorted

MacBook Pro

Now that my Citrix Fob to work is working my MBP is becoming ridiculously useful!

With Googlemail and iPhone I now have an all in one solution for work and home

Googlemail handles my Calendar (and iCal now syncs)

Google also has my contacts

Mindjet is my online mind mapper of choice

Evernote manages my notes

Dropbox allows me to sync the odd file

Just a pity that my work email isn't Office 2007 (2003 is nowhere near as good for GTD)

TTC

Dug out a few paper from 05/06 referencing TTC
Very interesting to re read these now given the experience we have in
08/09

iPhone

Sunday afternoon playing with my new iPhone I've found a way to be
even more geeky