Getting Things Done : Book Review!
This article is all abut a book titled ‘Getting things done’, read more to find out.
What is the book ‘Getting things done’ about?
Getting things done is a small book by David Allen in which he talks about the basic principles of stress free productivity, systems for productivity and many more. This is a fairly small book with just 354 pages. The author of the book is a big productivity guru himself and also a professional productivity consultant. He is also a New York Times bestselling author.
My Review
Getting things Done By David Allen is a nice book. I learnt quite a lot from this book, mainly the systems for productivity. I must admit that the first part was kind of boring, since I already had a GTD(Fancy term for ‘Getting Things Done’) system in Notion. But after the first part everything started getting better. The methods and systems explained in this book really works. Overall a pretty useful book.
How I discovered it?
I discovered Getting Things Done about 2 years ago. It was there everywhere, everyone was talking about it, so I decided to try it out myself. I read it as an Audiobook since it’s more faster and it’s also more versatile.
Who should read it?
I think that this book is for anyone who has some job or work. In my case, it was quite helpful since I write articles here, even though it is not technically my job. If you are a student and you are looking for how to study more productively, then, this book is not for you. I would suggest that you read the book titled ‘Make It Stick’. A review for that is coming soon stay tuned by subscribing or by following me on twitter.
My Notes
This book is filled with information so, this list isn’t really complete. These are just some of the things that I found useful from the book.
The 5 steps of mastering workflow-
- Capture - Collect important things.
- Clarify - Process what it means
- Organize - Place it in the appropriate section of your to-do list.
- Reflect - Review that frequently.
- Engage - Do it!
- Quantity over Quality.
- Always brainstorm projects we enter into.
- Create a system, that is easy, quick and one that works for you.
- Mind Like Water.
- Everything must be written down somewhere and keep everything out of your head.
- Ease of capturing tasks is important.
- Always be prepared for the worst things.
How this book changed me.
I’ve noticed 3 major differences in my life after reading this book.
- I’ve started being more organized.
- I’ve started being more productive.
- I also improved my existing system for capturing tasks.
Overall, Getting things done is a pretty good book and I would give it a 4 star rating out of 5. That’s it for now,