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David Allen has been called "the personal productivity guru".
He's an ardent advocate that better organization is the key to “stress-free
productivity”... which, in turn, makes it possible for people
to free up time for what's most important to them.
The book offers down-to-earth advice on getting organized on a day-to-day
basis. There is an almost physical sense of having everything have its
proper place, and of controlling the clutter:
- write down every task and project and gather these lists or individual
notes in one place (as opposed to keeping it as clutter in your head)
- For each task, decide what needs to be done (for larger projects,
this means identifying steps)
- "Getting Things Done" describes a process of prioritizing
that may, at first, seem complicated, but has a fairly simple logic
- Part of it is how you break down big project into smaller, manageable
tasks
- An essential ingredient in the system is to acquire the discipline
to periodically review the lists
Last but not least: "Getting Things Done" advocates a "Two-Minute
Rule": When something important takes only 2 minutes (or less)
to do, don't put it on a list, just do it.
See: Time management
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