You have clients, deadlines and tons of work to do. You have to deliver results and stay on top of your lists. You have to be productive. Otherwise you’re out of the game. And being out of the game is not fun.
I had an online business for more than 10 years and I pretty much [...]
The GTD galore is spreading along quite nicely, not only in a vertical direction, by reaching more and more adepts in its traditional western cultural space, but also in new spaces, some of them well over the Atlantic Ocean. One of these days I found the first Brasilian iPhone application which claims to implement the [...]
Mind mapping is not only one of my favorite’s way of brainstorming and idea forging, but it was also a constant topic on this blog, since the very beginning. I first published a mind map on 8th February 2007 more than one an a half year from now. It was a Meeting Mind Map Template, [...]
…Might start right here, right now, at eDragonu’s blog. Let’s be brief about this one, because I’m so excited: in a short note received from Ismael Ghalimi, the founder and producer of the Office 2.0 conference, which will start September 3rd in San Francisco, I am invited to support the conference. I would be so [...]
The GTD one-liners are just short sentences that synthesizes in a very simple way some of the GTD concepts I found interesting or somehow become especially close to my activity. There are already 3 other GTD one-liners available and I also started a new section, available directly from the menu bar. The whole one-liner concept [...]
There were several posts here at DragosRoua.com, related to mind mapping, over the last two years. In fact, there were so much posts about mind mapping that I had to create a separate category for them. From an introduction of how and why to blog with a mind map, up to a recap of my [...]
We all know what GTD can do for top managers or busy businessmen, this is what David Allen is doing all day long, training big guys to get things done. But GTD is not necessary a business-only process. It can be used with great results in other activities, such as blogging. If you are not [...]
Remember that we started this series with a fundamental sentence: you are the most important person in your life. You, and only you, are responsible for your actions, for their outcome, and for the level of energy that fuels you as a result. You’re responsible for your wealth or poverty, for your relations, for your [...]
My first post in the series “Do It For Yourself” was about the “how” in your actions. If you come here directly, and didn’t have the chance to look at the whole series here’s a little recap, to help you better understand the concepts. First, and foremost, you are the most important person in your [...]
Well, it looks like I will have a wonderful spring: today I was notified about being listed on Top 50 Productivity Blogs of the Year on Evan Carmichael’s website. The top, divided in several sections, like “Getting Things Done”, or “Life Hacks” puts me near icon bloggers like zen habits or Steve Pavlina. I’am also [...]
One of the key factors for a good GTD implementation is the context management. There are many key factors, I agree, but context management is one of them. As you may already know, one of the basic concepts of GTD is to spread your actions over all the contexts you are acting in. You are [...]