System One – The Master Project List – Every project (defined as something you want to get done that requires more than 2 tasks, taking longer than 2 minutes) that you want to accomplish in your life.  All down on paper (or in a system somewhere)

System Two – The Filing System – Active projects, Reference files, Archives

System Three – Your Tickler System

System Four – Your Calendar

System Five – The Waiting On System

System Six – The Next Action List

System Seven – Your In-Basket

System Eight – Your Weekly Review

Your homework for the week:

1) Tell me what you would accomplish if you achieved “Stress-Free Productivity”

2) If you are already a GTD fan, tell me how your story of getting your systems to work together.

This is not just a rhetorical question.

If you are coaching someone, and that person is failing to complete their assignments, there is a good chance that your coachee has either lost connection to their vision, or their vision has expired.  Riding your coachee about the failure is pointless, they don’t care anymore.

Assignment failure is only a trip wire for noticing vision disconnection.  This is where you as a coach get to visibly and dramatically do your job; vision creation.

Lets assume that at one point in the past, your coachee had a vivid compelling vision of their future.  A future that was so bright they had to wear shades.  A vision that was so compelling that you had problems getting them to get enough sleep because they are so busy driving towards the fulfillment of their vision.

Now they don’t have that connection anymore.

So how do you get them back in touch with their vision?  How do you create one in the first place?

I’ll be coming back to this question, I think you’ll like my approach.  But in the mean time, what’s your approach?