May 13th, 2009 
kidguru Getting Things Done
“The Art of Stress Free Productivity”
By David Allen
I’ve been an audible member for quite awhile now, audible.com is a library of audio books and full of different categories and authors, David Allen was a reccomended author to me and I listened to his popular book on GTD the ” Getting Things Done” book on how to stay organized, the art of organzing and how to be more productive in life etc.
I’ve finished the book recently and moved on to his second book part of GTD called ” Making Things Work”.
Gettings things done is a great motivational book into getting you to start adapting the system, its full of tips and includes a
PDF file of images of charts etc. The books focus is to get you into the system and even though it sounds simple how to get things done, tips like task lists, the 43 folder system, to-do lists and many other methods that really go a long way and have great little stories with each lesson . More importantly the book shows you how to be more productive in life yet not be stressful and take things one at a time and not be worried about stuff you haven’t done etc.
David Allen’s excert on the site of audible states , the book teaches you :
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If you a person who wants to be more organized and productive this book has great lessons and helps teaches you how to clear your mind and stay focused on what needs to get done. A great example he uses in the book and at his seminars is “Mind like water” a great lesson implying that you have to be like a pool of water ready to take rocks etc that may ripple and have effect in your life yet you manage & adjust and even out , you have to be ready for anything etc, something david explains way better then i do haha.
After listening to it, it’s a book that you really have to take and listen to over and go through chapters over and review the content as the book teaches you something each time and you can’t just consume it all at one time. If your like me you’ll be urged to buy the 2nd book ” Making it all work” showing you how to apply and make this all work for you get the system easier and funner etc to use. Still i go back at times and listen over to the book from the start and really soak in the content as with audio books you really need to be focused and listening to the story , while the narrator reads and a great plus is that david allen actually narrates his story and does a great job doing it I may add.
All in all I love the book a great read well worth it , really deep and full of stories and examples takes time to understand some things sometimes and takes a second or even 3rd or fourth look/listen to fully learn and understand the chapter.
I’d recommend the book to anyone looking into adapting the GTD system…
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