{"id":882,"date":"2009-04-25T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T21:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2009-04-25T17:52:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T21:52:36","slug":"book-review-getting-things-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Getting Things Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity\/dp\/0142000280\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1240695770&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-883\" title=\"132\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/132-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/132-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/132.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am often a freak about productivity.\u00a0 I cannot stand for things to pile up and often set aside large chunks of time dedicated just to &#8220;getting things done&#8221;.\u00a0 I ready <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity\/dp\/0142000280\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1240695770&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Getting Things Done<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Allen<\/a> with the hopes of picking up some good ideas about how to streamline my to-do lists with my workspace and my tasks with my priorities.\u00a0 Great read&#8230;not a ton of revolutionary ideas, just a practical guide for being more efficient with what you are doing.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my takeaways straight from the book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-It&#8217;s possible for a person to have an overwhelming number of things to do and still function productively with a clear head and a positive sense of relaxed control.<\/p>\n<p>-Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.<\/p>\n<p>-Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time.\u00a0 They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.<\/p>\n<p>-No matter what the setting, there are five discrete stages that we go through as we deal with our work.\u00a0 We (1) <em>collect<\/em> things that command our attention; (2) <em>process<\/em> what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) <em>organize<\/em> the results, which we (4)<em> review<\/em> as options for what we choose to (5) <em>do<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>-Have you envisioned wild success lately?<\/p>\n<p>-In general, the reason things are on your mind is that the outcome and the action steps have not been appropriately defined, and\/or reminders of them have not been put in places where you can be trusted to look for them appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>-One of the best tricks for enhancing your personal productivity is having organizing tools that you love to use.<\/p>\n<p>-Actions choices are based on the following four criteria, in order: context, time available, energy available, and priority.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in specific tools to help you be more successful in &#8220;getting things done&#8221;, check out David Allen&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am often a freak about productivity.\u00a0 I cannot stand for things to pile up and often set aside large chunks of time dedicated just to &#8220;getting things done&#8221;.\u00a0 I ready Getting Things Done by David Allen with the hopes of picking up some good ideas about how to streamline my to-do lists with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}