David Allen is famous for his book on Getting Things Done (GTD), a productivity system that involves gathering all tasks and projects into an inbox, reviewing each item to determine the next action, and then taking actions of less than two minutes or deferring other items to later. The system aims to process and organize everything on one's plate in a simple, straightforward way so tasks can be accomplished and stress reduced.

1. Meet David Allen

2. He’s famous for this book

3. And the whole GTD™ system

4. So what is “GTD”?

5. GETTING THINGS DONE
GTD is quite simply the BEST
productivity system

6. How does it work?
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7. It’s all about processing and organising
Here’s how it goes...

8. FIRST

9. Gather everything in to an
INBOX
This includes...
all the papers around you
at home & in your office
all the ‘s tuff’ laying around inside your head
Email, letter, faxes etc

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11. THEN

12. Start going through all your stuff
Piece by piece

13. The most important question...

14. a t is i t?
W h

15. Is it: Actionable
?
YES NO
Trash it
What’s the
Reference it
next action?
Save it

16. Do it
Is it a multi- No
Delegate it
step task? Defer it
Create a
project file
What’s the
next action?

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18. If the action takes less than 2 minutes....

19. DO IT!

20. The best thing about
the GTD system?

21. You can use whatever you
want as your GTD system.
Digital
Paper
Files

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