Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity or "GTD" by David Allen, originally published in 2001 but revised in 2015, lays out a work flow - the process of collecting, processing, organizing, reviewing and doing - that can be applied to any goal or project. The ideas are valuable; howe...
If nothing else it made me think about how I do things and how I might make things work better. While I mightn't agree with all his methods, it does make sense to have a method to deal with things and make sure that you have a plan in place for dealing with the various things that arrive on your pl...
I appreciated the simple approach to productivity advocated in this book. The method is not so complex that it can't be implemented (I've been around people that use it.) and the explanations include enough examples that I find I can find where I fit in the process. I've going to have to buy my own...
I love productivity books, and try to read one at the start of every year. My take-away from this one is the value of the "two-minute rule": If you find out or decide something needs to be done and you can do it in 2 minutes, do it right now. If it takes longer to set up a note to remind yourself to...
I'd give this 2.5. There were a few helpful items in there, but overall this book didn't greatly appeal to me. First, her amount of clutter was not much (she was married, no kids, living in an 850 sq. ft. apt.) when writing this, so her timeline of a week is pretty unrealistic if you live in a large...
The thing that keeps David Allen, developer of the Getting Things Done (GTD) philosophy, from being completely insufferable is that he freely admits to falling down frequently and has purposely developed GTD so that it's easy to get back up to speed. I'm a little over my promised six-month revisitin...
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