How mobile impacts productivity - with Getting Things Done author David Allen

There are times when I look down at my vibrating watch or hear that universal notification ping on our desktop or tablet and wonder if all this tech, all this mobile, has really made us more productive. I mean, I get 150 emails a day and process 10 of them to satisfaction. I get 500 text messages, 100 DMs and a bunch of notifications from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. All these notifications are telling me something, adding to my task list or just cluttering up my mind. Am I right? Are you feeling that way as well? Like many of you who would be interested in UNTETHER.tv, I went out and found my productivity methodology in David Allen's Getting Things Done. It resonated with me like it did with millions of others and each year I get deeper into my practice of it. But I wondered what the impact of all those bells and bings and things popping up and over do to productivity. I wondered if it made sense to be always connected, always accessible and always adding to my inbox. I wondered so much that I figured I would ask the guy who has helped clear my mind for over 10 years - David Allen himself. This episode looks at how mobile and digital technologies have impacted our ability to get things done and is full of great insight and thinking for all of us - whether we practice GTD or not. As David says in the episode, much of what we face today with the latest technologies forces us to get our lives in order, to free our mind to be creative. It was a joy to sit with David for this time and this episode will help you understand how important having something to process all the information you gather will become more and more a competitive advantage. Full show notes can be found here.