Getting it done.
"Meg, if I could make a system work, I wouldn't need a system." Meg Edwards was my former colleague from Landmark College.
"It's not a system, Frank, it's a way of thinking about your work."
Meg called me six weeks after our head of security had called me at home at 9pm to tell me my office had been ransacked. I laughed out loud. "Mike, I said, "That's how I left it." Mike wasn't surprised.
Meg, who had worked as an admission counselor with us, had left to get a master's degree in counselling, and had just joined another start up, The David Allen Company, to coach people in David's Getting Things Done methodology.
I trusted Meg, and knew she knew what she was getting into with me, and I agreed to engage in two-days of in-person Workflow Coaching in my college office.
It was immediately transformative. My ability to step up the management of the stuff of my work was so transparent that my boss, Lynda J. Katz, Ph.D Neuropsychiatry, contracted for Meg to do Workflow Coaching for her entire executive team.
"If it works for Frank, it will work for anyone." she was reported to have said.
Twenty-seven years later, I'm still a daily practitioner of the Getting Things Done way of thinking. All day I ask myself the questions I learned from David through Meg: "What's got my attention? What's my next action?
And while GTD isn't a decluttering system, knowing why I need for action and project support and how to manage it for ready storage and retrieval, my office is tidy most of the time.
Some of you already know that twenty-nine years later, and on the 25th anniversary this month of David Allen's book, Meg is doing a year-long weekly series on what she's learned in those nearly three decades which have brought her to her current role as a GTD Senior Master Coach, and Master Trainer. She's mining three of David's books: Getting Things Done, Ready for Anything, and Making It All Work for what she calls the gems of wisdom that show up with the optimum wisdom at the optimum time.
Thank you Meg, and thank you David. Getting Things Done wasn't just immediately transformative, it's been life transformative.
If you haven't subscribed to Meg's series, you can follow it here.
And for those ready to take it a step further, whether you’re new to GTD or already well-trained, Meg’s personalized one-on-one coaching can help you apply these principles to your work and life in a way that’s immediately actionable and transformative.
Book an engagement with Meg by emailing us at info@gtdfocus.com.
Warm regards,
Francis Sopper
References:
here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRH9fEmS3ZFu5YBGGEdIg6ZKJtvhR2STp
one-on-one coaching: https://gtdfocus.com/