GTD was just more practical.Įven David Allen, I think, somewhere wrote that … there’s a saying: If you’re climbing a ladder fast, but the ladder is against the wrong wall, it’s not really productive. I knew it was something I wanted to implement. What I liked about Getting Things Done, when I read the book, I was like, “Yeah, this is more down to earth, more like practical tips that I can apply now to get through college faster and better, and then hopefully figure out what I want to do with my life.” I was just blown away. Then, a friend of mine suggested that I should read Getting Things Done. I still didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. These books were really great, but they were high-level thinking: What’s your mission? What’s your five-year plan? For me, when I was a student, it was hard to grasp because I wanted to get through college quickly. The first thing I did, I started learning about Stephen Covey’s First Things First and then Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I would just, you know, not deliver things on time, and I would just blow deadlines. It was hard for me to get organized I realized that I had some potential, that when I was organized, in these moments of brilliance when I was organized, I could deliver cool things, and I could come up with great ideas. Here at Learning House we have a program called the Unstoppable Course, where we’ve implemented GTD and Nozbe as the primary productivity system. In college, Michael discovered Getting Things Done by David Allen, and it changed his life. He holds two degrees: one in Business Economics from the University of Gdansk and another in Marketing from Fachhochschule Stralsund in Germany. Michael’s from Gdynia, Poland, and learned to love computers early from his father, who was an electronics technician.

Recently, I was lucky enough to sit down with Nozbe’s founder, Michael Sliwinski, to learn what inspires him, how he uses Nozbe himself and why he’s motivated by the GTD system. One of the most powerful tools in that arsenal is Nozbe. It’s no secret that I am a proponent of the Getting Things Done (GTD) system to keep me organized and efficient. “You can do anything, but not everything.” - David Allen

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