GTD® Virtual Study Group

When you're saddled with a role that you're not enthusiastic about or having gotten assigned a big project that doesn't turn you on, how do you get through it to what you really want to do? In this episode, the Virtual Study Group takes a question from a listener and explores roles, horizons of focus, and letting go of the "shoulds" that get in the way of doing our great work. Official GTD® Virtua...

Stuck in a dead end job? Laid off? Maybe just want new horizons and challenges? No matter where you are in your career, this call will give you some food for thought. Ken Mattsson (www.resonare.com; twitter.com/kenmattsson), career and professional development consultant, takes us from 50K to the runway and gives lots of helpful advice on how to create your vision, build your network, and accelera...

Inundated with information? Drowning under the tidal wave of newsfeeds, Twitter, Facebook, and more? In this episode, the VSG discusses the flow of information: where it comes from and what to do with it. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

If you're a MindManager geek, then buckle up! You're about to get a whirlwind tour of Gyronix's awesome software. Results Manager and Gyro-Q were designed to turbocharge your mindmaps, gathering info automatically to keep you completely up to date. Nik shows us the ropes and gives us the inside skinny on this dynamite software. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

How do you juggle keeping up with customers, prospects, and other people you want to stay in contact with? In this episode, the Virtual Study Group discusses tools and software like SalesForce.com and Outlook along with GTD principles and practices. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

Author and Zen Habits blogger Leo Babauta joins the Virtual Study Group to talk about simplicity, mindfulness, productivity, writing, and much more. Take a listen here. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

Think you can't do GTD on an iPhone or iPod Touch? Think again! In this episode, you'll hear about how to be productive on your iPhone or iPod Touch device as well as get recommendations on numerous "must-have" apps. Enjoy! A few important notes: There will be no call on Thurs, Dec 24. Merry Christmas! Our next call will be Jan 14 when we'll be joined by special guest, Leo Babauta, author of the p...

Drawing from two terrific books (Immunity to Change and How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work), host Tara Rodden Robinson introduces a way to take on significant change in your life. The idea is to uncover your "big assumption"-the obstacle that's getting in the way of your improvement goal -- and dismantle it to free you to experience the change you want to see. Official GTD® Virtual Stu...

Snowed under with links, ideas, blogs, and lists? To give us a hand, Ellen Valentine generously offered to share she uses Evernote to get things done and stay organized. In this episode, you'll learn how she keeps all sorts of diverse materials at hand and under control. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

In this episode, you can hear a live demo of the astonishingly powerful productivity tool, Nozbe. Michael Sliwinski gives us a test drive, answers questions, and even gives us a special goodie at the end of the call. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

How do we set goals, reach higher, and make progress? In this episode, we talked about how to tackle continuous improvement and got some insight from SixSigma blackbelt, JC Mehner. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

How do you resolve a short-term hardship when going for a long-term goal? And what if you're not sure you'll succeed, even if you put forth your best for a long time? In this episode, the Virtual Study Group tackles the complex topics of plateaus, mastery, and more. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

We're turning two! The Virtual Study Group celebrates its second anniversary with a lively discussion about what makes the group work, our favorite past episodes, and lots of ideas and topics to consider for the coming year. Help yourself to a big slice of the virtual birthday cake and join the fun! Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

One of the key aspects of GTD is getting things out of your head. In this episode, you can learn more about how to use TheBrain's amazing prowess to do just that. Our guests were Harlan Hugh (CEO and Brain inventor) and Shelley Hayduk (Brain.com blogger). You can hear how to use tags to create contexts, thought types to categorize, link out to other files, and much more. Official GTD® Virtual Stud...

By request, we revisit mindmapping this week. In this episode, hear host & facilitator Tara Rodden Robinson give a guided tour to how she uses mindmaps to organize projects, brainstorm, stay on track, and much more. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

In this episode, hear special guest, Ken Case, CEO of OmniGroup the makers of OmniFocus. (You can learn more about Ken here: http://www.omnigroup.com/company/people/>) Ken introduced us to all the features of OmniFocus and answered burning questions from our listeners. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

In this episode, you can hear how we use someday/maybe to manage aspirations and goals. Get insights into the nature of "not-doing" from Augusto, as well as harness GTD to learn from your mistakes. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

David Allen calls it "captain and commander," a state of perspective and control nirvana that allows you to have mind like water. But how do you get there? In this episode, we talk about capture, weekly review, and the other GTD skills that are needed to get you in the upper-right quadrant. We also had a surprise special guest, Renzo Borgatti, who gave us the low-down on the Pomodoro Technique as...

Once wasn't enough! In this episode, we take on overload and overwhelm in a smackdown rematch. New perspectives on how overload can focus your efforts, dealing with crises, and keeping up when sheep happen (you gotta listen to get the joke). A dynamite conversation! Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

Drinking from the firehose? In this episode, the GTD Virtual Study Group takes on overwhelm versus overload in a GTD smackdown. Want to know how we cope with everything that we have coming at us? Listen in and find out. A couple of notes: The episode on social networking recorded on March 26 was lost to the technology gremlins. Both GarageBand and the backup recordings failed. The next meeting of...

Welcome to another great episode of the GTD Virtual Study Group! In today's discussion, you can hear how GTD has helped us stay in touch with our networks. Dan Stratton shares how maintaining your network may help you if you get laid off (timely advice!). We talked about what it takes to stay in touch and gave some thought to social media. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.c...

Welcome to another great episode of the GTD Virtual Study Group. In this episode, you'll hear Michael Deutch whose entire job consists of doing fun things with mindmapping. Michael is Mindjet's chief evangelist and is an avid GTD-er. He talked to us about how to enhance brainstorming, organizing projects, getting to higher horizons of focus and much more. Michael mentioned several links in the cou...

In this episode, you can learn how presenter Jim McCullen manages tasks as well as email using Outlook's inbox. If you'd like to have a copy of the accompanying PowerPoint, please request it via email to info@gtdvsg.com. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

David Allen's new book, Making It All Work, hit the stores in late December. In this episode, the group shares their thoughts on the book and what new insights they've gleaned from this latest addition to the GTD bookshelf. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com

Looking forward to creating a great 2009? In this episode, you can learn how we celebrated our accomplishments of the past year and look forward to great things in the future. We talked about tools and tips and GTD ah-hahs that we'll use to make it all happen. Official GTD® Virtual Study Group website: http://gtdvsg.com