Guruprasad Puranik

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Empty your mind – Troubleshooting your Capture system for Getting Things Done (GTD)

Ever had your brain reminding you of things to do at the most inappropriate moments. Like when you are in a deep conversation with someone or your head touches the pillow at night? A lot of us carry most of our to-dos in our head. Or keep them scattered in

The Weekly review - a keystone holding your Getting Things Done (GTD) practice together

The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that the entropy or the state of disorder of a system always increases with time. Likewise, our attention and energy tend to dissipate away from our areas of focus. Weeds naturally creep into a garden. And akin to gardening, the ‘Reflect’ stage maintains and

Troubleshooting your Getting Things Done (GTD) approach - the Clarify stage

It's at the Clarify (also Reflect) stage that most people end up tripping in their Getting Things Done (GTD) journey. In the Clarify stage, the key processing questions are – 1. Is this an actionable item? 2. What is the immediate next physical, visible action on this item? According

Why is the Getting Things Done (GTD) system difficult to master?

If you struggle with getting things done, you are not alone. The Getting Things Done (GTD) skillset is a hard one to master. David Allen, an authority on productivity and author of Getting Things Done : "It can easily take as long as two years to get the practice fully

You need a Habit strategy if you are chasing any Aspiration, Skill, or Knowledge

Do you have an aspiration you want to achieve or a skill to master or knowledge to learn? Yes? You signed up for those courses, bought new tools, started high on motivation and energy. And then petered out? And what about the aspirations, skills, or knowledge (ASK) that had your

The Marketer is dead. Long live the Marketers!

Marketing as we knew it has fragmented and hyper- specialized. The impact of technological changes and now Covid-19 has ensured that there is no going back. And that has implications for traditional Marketers as well as users of Marketing as a skill set or function. Even a few decades back,

Test for your users. Not your testing devices.

Some of the most valuable signals look like noise. They come from unlikely sources, are not neatly packaged in datasets and lack explanations. They get ignored. Much of my insights, over 20 years as a marketer, came because i learnt to value such signals early in my career. At a