“The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi The GTD methodology (Getting Things Done) methodology is a personal productivity system that is valid and appropriate for everyone, but there are certain professions, jobs, and ways of working and living in which it is essential to be able…

Last week we launched a new option in our web application to help our users plan the most complicated projects in a natural and intuitive way. In this article we are going to delve a little deeper into the natural planning process. Project Natural Planning is a simple but powerful…

To achieve relaxed control of your life you need: Clearly define the results or projects you need to achieve. Define the next actions you must take to achieve those results. And put the necessary reminders in a trusted system that you can review regularly. This is what you do almost…

The last few articles have looked at how you can effectively manage your affairs through five steps that allow you to regain and maintain control of your life: You start by capturing everything that has your attention. You use a simple mental process to clarify exactly what each of your…

The last stage of the Getting Things Done methodology workflow is called Engage, and it is when you take advantage of all the organizational work you have done in the previous stages to make effective decisions about what to do at any given moment. From a methodological point of view…

We have seen how you can transform all the to-dos in your life into a set of perfectly organized reminders in a trusted system. We could say that the first three stages of the GTD methodology workflow form the “organizational apparatus” of the method: To Properly Manage Your Stuff, Start…

In the previous article we saw how to do the transformation process that allows you to give a category to each of the items you have previously captured, according to their nature and what you want to do about them: trash, someday/maybe, reference material, action, project. …

“Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined” — David Allen. Okay, you’ve already captured a lot of things that need your attention. The next step to properly manage your commitments is to determine the exact meaning…

Have you ever put something on your front door so that you won’t forget to take it somewhere the next day? Surely, by doing that you forgot about it, stopped worrying, and went on with your day as if nothing had happened. Your brain is not designed to store worries…