Free Help Getting Things Done In 2008

If one of your resolutions for the new year is to master the "art of stress-free productivity" - here's some free help.

First, some background: we're talking about Getting Things Done (commonly abbreviated as GTD), the action management method, created by David Allen.

GTD rests on the principle that a person needs to move tasks out of the mind by recording them somewhere. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate on actually performing those tasks. What distinguishes GTD from other time- or action-management systems is the idea of grouping tasks by the context (defined as a place or set of available resources) in which they are to be performed.

If you already read the book, this free bundle of 17 are a great supplement to the concepts presented in the book.

It is available to download for free at the David Allen Company online store. The articles The downside to all of the free content is that you must provide an email address and a billing address since the download is considered a "purchase" from the online store (even though it is a free download). You do NOT need to hand over any credit card information.

The articles included in the bundle:

• 5 Phases
• Stalking the Wild Projects
• Palm
• Are You Micro-Managing Your Mind?
• The Weekly Review
• The Coach as Personal Trainer
• The Threefold Nature of Work
• Make It Up and Make It Happen
• Organizing a Paper Organizer
• The Productivity Investments
• General Reference Filing
• The Tickler File
• Overtime... All the Time
• Managing Work on a Vacation
• Personal Inventory Control
• Workflow Diagram
• Workflow Advanced