Self-Care Techniques to Help You Be More Productive

Join us for GTD Café on September 9, 2025, as we explore the essential—but often underestimated—relationship between self-care and productivity. A well-designed productivity system can help you get things done, but if you’re not tending to your physical, mental, and emotional well-being, even the best system can break down. In this session, we’ll discuss how integrating self-care practices into your GTD workflow can restore energy, increase focus, and keep your system resilient in the face of stress and overload.

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*** Please log in between at least few minutes early to get your audio/video working, mix-and-mingle, and complete the Challenges Forum signup form so we can start promptly! ***

Joining the Virtual Meeting Room & Mix-and-Mingle (5:45 PM - 6:00 PM)

Please note that you will join this Meetup via Zoom.us, a free, Web-based meeting and phone conferencing software. You need to have a microphone and speakers working on your computer or laptop to connect by computer/laptop/mobile device with high-speed Internet access. For the best experience, instead of speakers, we suggest using headphones (the kind you plug into the 35mm audio jack in your computer or laptop) if you have a pair.

You can join the Zoom meeting by PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android.
There is a backup phone option for audio, if you cannot connect by audio through your computer or laptop over your Internet connection.
To join the Zoom Meeting, visit the link in this event and type your name when it asks. If you cannot join by computer audio, there is an option when you launch the meeting to dial-in by phone.

I suggest you visit https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting to download the "Zoom Client for Meetings" on your PC, Mac or Linux computer/laptop, or https://zoom.us/download#mobile_app for the iOS and Android OS device mobile app links, prior to the meeting. If you would like to familiarize yourself with Zoom or need further help joining the meeting, please visit https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-Joining-a-Meeting.)

I. Introductions + Challenges Forum (~6:05 PM)
A. Introductions - Each member will introduce yourself briefly, tell us what you do professionally (or otherwise), your GTD experience, and a recent success with your productivity implementation and/or life.
B. Challenges Forum - We'll give a few minutes to have the group help each member with solutions to challenges we may be facing currently with life or work circumstances with our productivity system. These are specific productivity challenges and only one challenge per member for time's sake.

Please complete the Challenges Forum form here: https://forms.gle/4Eg73yoKmig75Qqf6

II. GTD|REFRESH: Self-Care Techniques to Help You Be More Productive

In this GTD|REFRESH session, we’ll explore how sustainable productivity is built on a foundation of consistent self-care. When your energy is low, your system is more likely to stall. But when you integrate self-care techniques into your workflow, you strengthen your capacity to maintain clarity, focus, and control.

We’ll cover:

• The mind-body connection in productivity: How well-being influences clarity and decision-making.
• Identifying your energy drivers: Understanding your personal sources of rest, recharge, and resilience.
• Building self-care into your GTD system: Practical ways to track habits, routines, and rest in your existing workflows.
• Preventing burnout: Signs to watch for and system tweaks that can help you course-correct early.
• Self-care audits and reviews: How to reflect on your well-being during Weekly Reviews or Monthly Reviews.

Whether you're running on fumes or looking to optimize your energy, this session will help you think of self-care as a productivity tool—not a luxury.

Bring your copy of Getting Things Done [https://amzn.to/3c8jKNA] by David Allen to reference, and a notepad or journal to capture what self-care strategies you'd like to integrate into your system.

III. GTD Resource Sharing (7:20 PM)

This is where everyone can offer a book title, recent blog or magazine article, tip/trick/hack, tool, service or item that has helped them in their life either with GTD or otherwise.

IV. Announcements / Closing Remarks (7:25 PM)