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Getting Things Done is not simply about getting things done. It’s about being appropriately engaged with your work and life.
David Allen • Getting Things Done
In truth, this book is not so much concerned with getting things done as it is championing appropriate engagement with your world—guiding you to make the best choice of what to do in each moment, and to eliminate distraction and stress about what you’re not doing.
David Allen • Getting Things Done
Manage to-do list creep.
99U • Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
Projects I define a project as any desired result that can be accomplished within a year that requires more than one action step.
David Allen • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Organizing is a great strategy for simplifying.
Giles Colborne • Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design
Coming toward him on the belt are workday tasks and meetings that he needs to keep up with in order to “do his job.” Those things immediately in front of him are what he is working on now or that are due now; as he accomplishes these, he tosses them into his mental “ accumulated accomplishments” pile shown in Figure 4.3 and moves on to the next ite
... See moreMichael Linenberger • Master Your Workday Now: Proven Strategi
In his book Getting Things Done, Allen provides a smart strategy for daunting jobs. The secret, Allen writes, is not to think about the task as one monolithic effort (like “Pay taxes”), but instead to find the first small action needed to make progress (like “Collect tax paperwork”) and go from there.