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Getting Things Done Summary
About Getting Things Done Book
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to:
Apply the "do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it" rule to get your in-box to empty Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations Plan projects as well as get them unstuck Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed Feel fine about what you're not doingFrom core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
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Work No Longer Has Explicit Boundaries
In the last half of the 20th century, what "work" represented in the industrialized world was transformed from an assembly line, make-it and move-it kinds of activity to "knowledge work."
Back then, work was self-evident. Now there are no edges to most of our projects.
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Basic Requirements for Managing Commitments
Managing commitments well requires the implementation of some basic activities and behaviors:
- If it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.
- You must clarify exactly what your commitment is and decide what you have to do, if anything, to fulfill it.
- Once you've decided on all the actions you need to take, you must keep reminders of them organized in a system you review regularly.
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Why Things Are On Your Mind
- You haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcome is.
- You haven't decided what the very next physical action step is.
- You haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust.
Until those thoughts have been clarified and those decisions made, and the resulting data has been stored in a system that you absolutely know you will think about as often as you need to, your brain can't give up the job.
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"The reason most organizing systems haven't work for most people is that they haven't yet transformed all the stuff they're trying to organize. As long as it's stuff it's not controllable"
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#1 Capture
... everything that has your attention.
For this, you can use
- Paper-tray: Where you will keep all the new information documents (hard copy).
- Personal NoteBook: This is for your own personal ideas which you can write it down.
- Note-taking app: You also can use any note-taking app like - google keep, EverNote, notion, OneNote, etc.
Just keep a note of everything that may be important for you later on. Don't just keep it in your mind.
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"Your mind is for having Ideas not (for) holding them."
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Share your ideas, stop owning them, let them loose because they need to become reality.
Ideas
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
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Getting Things Done a book you must read if you are having trouble with the things you haven't done yet and are still on your mind.
" Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
HENRY BERGSON
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"You can fool everyone else but you can't fool your own mind.
DAVID ALL
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