Getting Things Done by David Allen is a popular book on personal productivity, and I personally have benefited much from reading and applying the system and principles in this book. We are in the process of packing up and moving to another apartment this week, so my organizational system is not particularly evident in my home office these days. Nevertheless, despite external evidence to the contrary, the system is working and has made preparing for this move significantly less worrisome. Although I have not followed Allen’s GTD system as thoroughly as I should have or could have, my life and work have become easier to manage and I am not nearly as stressed about the possibility that I may have forgotten an important assignment or meeting. Believe it or not, my e-mail inbox is empty, and it gets to empty most days.
Others in SEND have also profited from studying and applying the GTD system. In fact, we had planned on putting a training session on “Getting Things Done” into the last Directors’ Council, but we ran out of time (a little ironic, don’t you think?)