GTD Coaching Testimonials

The lessons and coaching Meg has provided for me still resonate with me daily. It has allowed me to build several multi million dollar companies, and much more importantly, design a life worth living by my standards. If you get a chance, even if it is just a quick call, to connect with Meg, you will perhaps have found someone who genuinely can help you design the life you so desire.”

Julie not only got my tasks, commitment, emails, and workload under control, but also got me thinking (and operating) at a much higher level about WHAT tasks, commitments, emails and work I actually wanted to let into my life in order to have the life I want. 

'Productivity Coach' is the most understandable way to describe what Julie does, but it's a massive, massive undersell of what you'll be able to accomplish if you take her advice."

I could not recommend anyone more highly for someone looking to accelerate his or her personal productivity and meaningful goal-setting in life."

I was no stranger to GTD having read the book, attended their single day course and worked with the GTD system for nearly 8 years. Sensing a need to be even more productive, I began working with Julie Ireland and GTD Focus in April 2011. Julie was able to quickly diagnose my ‘system’; with some tweaks and adjustment, I was able to realize immediate benefit. With time the focus of coaching has shifted from the runway to the higher altitudes; from improved productivity to life fulfillment. With Julie’s guidance, what started as a desire to ‘get control’ has turned into a journey striving to be more intentional and more balanced – both personally and professionally."

Your support and expertise not only helped me navigate through those challenges but also empowered me to cultivate a new found sense of clarity and efficiency. Through your coaching, I have gained a deeper understanding of myself and how to align my actions with my most important values and goals.

Your dedication to my success has been evident in every session and I am truly grateful for the patience, kindness and wisdom you demonstrated throughout our time together.

Thank you Julie for not only being a coach but also a friend. Your guidance has and will indeed be instrumental in shaping my journey towards personal and professional growth and for that I am immensely grateful."

So, I engaged Julie Ireland as my GTD coach to help me refine my system and clear my runway. After two sessions, I found myself out of a job due to a company restructuring. I am so thankful that Julie was there as she led me through an intentional process of the GTD areas of focus and the natural planning model where I was able to get really clear on my priorities and what was important. I went into the coaching sessions thinking GTD was about control and managing actions but soon learned that the true power of GTD is clarity and focus. Julie was a wonderful, empathetic coach who has a contagious enthusiasm for the GTD methodology and lives by the principles."

Coming back from days away, I can reenter and say: what's my energy, what's my time, what's my focus, and just start picking off the right work. What GTD lets me do as an executive is think about alternatives intentionally, when I choose to, rather than having every thought process involve a multitude of possibilities. You spend a lot less time theorizing and a lot more time getting things done."

The key thing GTD has given me personally is a sense of freedom moving throughout the day. I feel confident that whatever I'm working on is what I should be working on, because I'm not worried about what I might be forgetting."

I quickly realized that what got me there wasn’t going to keep me there.

Little did I know that the coaching I received wasn’t just going to help me in my current role, it would also prepare me for my next role – something that I wasn’t even aiming for, and really wasn’t even on my radar.

The process is excellent, and I can’t say enough about how effective my coach was. Julie has an innate ability to meet you – right where you are. She helped me on the basic blocking and tackling of effective capture, email processing, and calendar management. She can also pivot to help you raise up and get a bigger picture of what you’re doing and making sure that it aligns with your long-term goals and principles. That alignment was very important in my case.

I reached out to GTD Focus for additional coaching in 2021 and was fortunate enough to have Julie as my coach again. That was key, because she was able to provide some real continuity from my last coaching engagement. It wasn’t a rehash of what we did last time. It was just the right blend of fine tuning the tactical items and adding the right amount of strategic guidance to help me focus on the right things at the right level.

In these days of apps, hacks, and quick fixes, it is so refreshing to invest in yourself with real timeless principles.

For anyone who is not where they want to be, personally or professionally, I would encourage you to give this coaching an honest shot. If you’re wondering if it’s worth it, I can tell you that the return I’ve gotten on my investment has definitely exceeded my expectations."

With the trusted system we’ve built together, I feel more in control of my ‘inboxes’, and the Weekly Reviews have become an invaluable part of my routine. They help me clarify action items and allow me to prioritize with confidence. Ultimately, I have seen this show up in my ability to deliver creative ideas.

Most importantly, I’m noticing the positive impact on my work-life-balance.

I’m excited to keep building on this foundation."

But I'd recently been promoted and was starting to feel the pressure that came with my new role and responsibilities. My work with Julie took my approach to GTD to a level I didn't think was possible. Now I truly feel I have a "trusted system," which allows me to keep things moving at work but more importantly gives me peace of mind knowing that my work is under control and I can therefore give my undivided attention to friends, family and other interests when I clock out for the day."

As a result of being able to connect projects to Horizons of Focus, I am way less timid when it comes to talking with my boss about what is coming up, or not coming up, in the near future. It's incredible, the difference!

My interpretation of the practices in the book were too rigid. Meg's coaching helped me incorporate a kinder, more intuitive style of GTD into my life than the one I had developed from my own reading. Meg raised my focus from the project and next actions levels of my life, to the higher areas of focus and responsibility that really drive the quality of my life."

Then we had a torrential rainstorm which dumped 110 mL, that’s about 7 inches, of rain in our fair city. Which flooded my house. 6 to 12 inches of water. Sewage water by the way.

So, I made a project. The project was: “restore my house to the condition it was in and complete upgrades.” The entire city had something like 6000 residential floods. So you can imagine the stress that that put on the insurance industries. To try to find somebody to help was difficult, at best.

So I did my next action step and off I went. Approximately 10 days after this flood, I have got everything completely under control. There are only two steps left in my project, and those are on my “waiting for” list.

I thank Meg for the training."

But the blind spots in my grasp of GTD were stumbling blocks that kept me from mastery for years. Finally, I reached out to GTD Focus. Julie Ireland, was cunningly adept at doing what I most desperately needed: she sussed-out my weak spots and got me moving on the right track. She helped me to grab the low-hanging fruit of GTD competence, which for me turned out to be the implementation of ground level next actions, and went on to resolving my real obstacles. I make this sound fairly straight forward, but it’s a hair-raising process best managed by someone who knows what she’s doing—and she does.

It is not an overstatement that GTD and the virtual coaching changed my life significantly for the better. The time and resources I invested in this process have been more productive than could I have imagined or hoped, and I’m deeply indebted."

From each session, I walked away with tangible, actionable changes that made my system work significantly better. The theoretical parts of GTD have become tangible with your help."