{"id":5174,"date":"2011-08-05T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/2011\/08\/02\/"},"modified":"2014-06-20T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T14:19:21","slug":"5174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2011\/08\/5174\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back over a year of doing GTD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2011\/08\/bjorn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5176\" title=\"bjorn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2011\/08\/bjorn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>A Community Contribution from <\/em>Bj\u00f6rn <em>Ljunggren, a <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.davidco.com\/connect\/\">GTD Connect<\/a> member from Sweden. He shared this in our members-only Forums and we thought it was such a great story that he gave us permission to share it with our GTD Times readers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My little GTD baby is celebrating its first birthday and it is time to look at the giant leaps and small steps taken towards a \u201cmind like water\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I bought the book in 2007 I just implemented parts of GTD. I fell of the wagon a lot during these first years and had a major crisis in 2009 when my whole digital GTD system crashed together with the hard   The second year is probably going to be more driven by spirit though. More around values, purpose and principles.<\/p>\n<p>So how about &#8220;Mind like water&#8221; then? Not even close. But I&#8217;ll keep trying!<\/p>\n<p>Life is good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Community Contribution from Bj\u00f6rn Ljunggren, a GTD Connect member from Sweden. 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