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Welcome to the GTD Focus Blog

We discuss the realities of modern knowledge work, where ambition, attention, and the 24 hour wall collide. Explore how to stay meaningfully engaged with what matters when time is limited and demands are constant.

How AI Can Support Your GTD Practice

GTD has always been practiced with tools. For some, that’s a paper notebook and a label maker. For others, a fully digital system of lists, calendars, and reference material. Regardless of format, tools have always supported the practice. Today, many of those tools are powered by AI. What’s changed recently is not the existence of

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Fast Forward to Yesterday

Most of us use a calendar as a tool for managing the future. That’s important, and In my own life, and in my practice with others, yesterday’s calendar is much more interesting. Here’s what happened yesterday. I was about to cycle out to my morning swim at 7:30 am. I checked my incoming before leaving

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Getting to Excellent

This article brings together selected writings on GTD by Francis Sopper, CEO of GTD Focus, exploring the path from learning to doing and what it takes to reach excellence. The Gap Between Knowing and Doing “Sometimes, I catch him on Youtube watching videos of Japanese joinery,” disclosed my son’s wife about her husband. I wasn’t

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Navigating Complexity

This article is a curated compilation of writings by Francis Sopper, CEO of GTD Focus, exploring the Five Horizons framework and how we navigate complexity through different levels of focus. The Five Horizons In the intervening years since I first engaged Getting Things Done in 1998, I’ve experienced four economic recessions, one divorce, started three

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Brain thinking

Why We Tend to Avoid Difficult Work

In this collection of Francis Sopper’s earlier writings, patterns of reflex, resistance, and rhythm are explored to better understand how they shape thinking and behavior. Reflexive Responses A number of years ago now, I was in Hong Kong consulting with a design group, and was working with a group of young people in a chic

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messy desk with papers, pens, and notebooks

More Than Just A System

This article brings together selected writings on GTD by Francis Sopper, CEO of GTD Focus, exploring what GTD is, how it functions, and how it shows up in real life. What Is GTD? Since you’re reading this, you most likely know. So how can we explain to others why GTD is so much more powerfully

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