When you set out to create your own GTD system, the author gives so many mental cues that help you clear your mind and dump all the information in it into your system. But I went through it all and finally got to the part(second part) where I could do something with the information and implement the knowledge learnt. Because it is a lot of theory, and I always felt I should get my hands dirty and start implementing what I am reading. The first part can be challenging to go through. In the third and final part, the author talks from his perspective and how he uses it and what is the ideal time to review the system and some other general tips and tricks. In the second part, it takes a deeper dive into how to create one. The first part is the theoretical explanation of what the system will be like. Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even in a year. And then the author gives tips on how to use the system, how to keep it up to date? How to make sure you don’t lose on information or idea and how to create capture tools. The author has done a great job in handholding someone new into creating a system from the ground up. It is up to the reader to follow the book religiously and create a framework of their own. This experience has enabled him to tweak, tune and perfect the system of GTD. There he helped them build their system to channel information, funnel decisions and build a task administration system. He did workshops with top rank executives of companies. The author has worked in this industry of productivity for more than three decades now, which gives him enough credibility and to the methods introduced in the book. Most decisions for action and focus are driven by the latest and loudest inputs, and are based on hope instead of trust. We very well know how to do things we don’t know how to manage them, and it is not taught in any school or college. What we don’t realise and nobody tells us is that there are better ways of managing our tasks or things to do. This book conveys a better method of planning, queuing and executing jobs. But there are better ways of handling and doing things. We generally do things ad-hoc or whatever is consuming our attention the most gets the highest priority. From these different baskets/queues, you handle the work item according to its own triggers. Each item ends up in one of the final baskets. And then you process each item from the In-basket by following the flowchart. This place where you put all your instant ideas about things to do is called In-basket. And he emphasises a lot on doing a mind sweep into an external system and having improved productivity without increased stress. The very broad and simple definition of a project that I have given (more than one action needed to achieve a desired result) provides an important net to capture the more subtle things that pull or push on your consciousness.Īuthor’s primary purpose is to make sure that people don’t rely on their brains to remember stuff. These actions can be performed right away if time is allotted to it. This book teaches you to break things and tasks into the smallest possible granular actions. In effect, this book not only improves your productivity but also increase your throughput. This reduced stress frees you to do more work or think about other prospects of your career. The book promises to improve your productivity at the same time, reducing stress about remembering to do the work. Most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept. I used a tool named Notion for implementing my GTD system. The book explains how to build a paper-based task management system, but you can use whatever tool to make a similar system digital or not. If you have been in a situation where you forget to do something because something urgent was highjacking all the attention? Then this book is an excellent guide for you. This system then enables you to patch up the crevices of your memory from which day-to-day tasks fall through. The book is an extraordinary walkthrough of how to set up a system that will help you navigate your daily tasks without missing any of them. I read the book on my kindle e-reader device, and as the name suggests, it is a self-help category book and about three hundred pages long. Recently I completed the book called Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity by David Allen.
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