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• 29 May 09
  

  Mark Walker

  gtd productivity writing

• 16 Mar 09
  

  Gr Anfr

  One of the givens in David Allen's Getting Things Done is that you can't do a project. Instead, Allen recommends you break projects down into immediate next
  

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• 02 Dec 08
  

  emmaline hill
  • I like to see GTD’s list-making and project planning as ways of carving out
    space for real work — getting the nitty-gritty of
    day-to-day life off our mind so we can work in the non-GTD-able space of
    creative productivity where, in fact, we do
    projects.
  • Always go into your scheduled project time with a single, well-defined goal.
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  • • focus on getting words on paper, ideas captured, paint on canvas, bits on the
      screen, and so on
    • Promise yourself that you will take the time to tidy up your work later, to
      revise and rethink whatever needs revising or rethinking.
    • That means that while I’m writing my presentation,
      I need to stop thinking about the outcome of delivering my paper in front of a large audience.
• 06 May 08
  

  G. Troger
  • Allen recommends you break projects down into immediate “next actions”
  • the space that creative people fear will be strangled by too much planning
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  • • schedule blocks of time to work on big projects
    • Using a timer can help motivate you to work more quickly and efficiently
    • Always go into your scheduled project time with a single, well-defined goal.
    • clear immediate goal
• 24 Apr 08
  

  Martin Koser

  I find there is a bigger economy in doing longer sessions, as your brain kicks into gear after a while.
  I would think that doing 30-minute chunks would be ineffective in this case.

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• 14 Apr 08
  

  Frank Colcord

  GTD

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