Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life | David Allen

Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life | David Allen | a weekly review?

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	Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life David Allen, 2003 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 44 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good follow up to GTD

This book repeats much of the content from GTD, from different angles, and so works well as a refresher, if that's what you're looking for.

It is structured as 52 2-3 page snippets. Plus a small chapter containing a nice summary/review of the GTD basics. And (brace yourself) there's even a new version of The Flowchart.

Definitely a follow-up to GTD, so read that first.

a weekly review?

I never thought I could get too much of David Allen, the productivity guru whose `Getting Things Done' system has transformed my work and life habits. But this book borders on too much of a good thing.

At least, that is, if you sit down and read right through it. The trick is to ration.

While I don't know whether the number 52 was chosen to give us a two-to-three page sampling of Allen's writing on a weekly basis, the truth is it works well that way. I'm integrating it into Allen's famous `weekly review', the bone marrow of a productive work-life organism.

In such small doses, it's good stuff. Allen and his staff have culled these reflections from his writings over the year. The power of `GTD' lies in its simplicity, so you won't find vastly divergent essays on politics, literature, and the price of gasoline in Idaho.

What you will find is a simple and tenacious focus on a system that allows you to clear your mind and focus on the one thing you're choosing to do right now.

On balance and in moderation, that's a good thing.

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Not as good as his other book

I was disappointed with this book because it isn't significantly different from the author's book, Getting Things Done.

Worth the time

A sophisticated and brief set of fifty-two disciplinary observations and requirements for better control and less confusion. A good book - but not as thorough and enlightening as I had hoped for -but then, I hoped for a lot.

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