IBMer Amanda Bauman recently reduced her inbox from 5000 emails to zero after learning GTD techniques. She attended the April 8 "Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes" web event and learned the best practices of GTD straight from the experts, David Allen and Eric Mack. Inspired by what she learned, Amanda made some dramatic improvements to her productivity system. I had linked to her story previously.
Today - a little over 1 month later - Amanda posted an update. She writes:
It's been over a month since I started my quest to clean out my in-box and adopt the GTD methodology. I've purposefully restricted this quest to just my work life, because quite frankly, my personal life works just fine as is :-), and I'm a big fan of only tackling one major change at a time, otherwise I start to feel out of control. And be assured, GTD is a big change.
But over a month later, my in box remains empty, my to do list remains full, and things that may have been on the edge of my radar and in danger of falling off... well, they are still on the edge, but now there is a nice, tidy wall around everything to prevent things from slipping off the edge.
She goes on to describe some of the challenges and successes she's experienced on her journey with GTD & eProductivity. Read the full post
Her story is well-worth the few minutes it takes to read. It echoes some of the other stories that we've heard from eProductivity users. Implementing a new productivity system can be a challenge - we all know how hard it is to change habits! But when you have great tools that attract you to use them, frequently the pain of change can be tempered and the adoption of new habits can be accelerated.
What are challenges you've faced on your way to working smarter, not harder?
Vaughan Rivette is a passionate GTD and eProductivity user and he recently shared this video in which he talks about the benefits he's experienced since implementing GTD with eProductivity.
"This is a video I put together which gives me the chance to explain the value I have found in using David Allen’s methodology called GTD (Getting things done). To use this methodology and to gain the stress free results, you don’t have to use Lotus Notes, or anything electronic for that matter. However, I find that Lotus Notes combined with eProductivity works really well for me.
Anyway, this video is a bit of a ramble and some of the sound quality is not the best, but it may give you some insight into what I have been doing."
One of my roles here at eProductivity is spreading the word about our software, so I love hearing your stories. It's great to see that eProductivity really works for people.
You can help to speed things along. We're offering to give your company lots of free licenses. You just need to tell them about it.
And since you, our pioneers and early adopters, have paved the way at your company, we want to refund your original eProductivity purchase. It's our way of saying thanks and putting a little extra cash in your pocket for the holidays.
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