Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life

by David Allen

Hardcover, 2003

Status

Available

Call number

646.7

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Collection

Your library

Publication

Viking Adult (2003), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 192 pages

Description

Discover David Allen's powerful productivity principles and vastly increase your ability to work better, not harder -- every day. David asks listeners what's holding them back and shows how all of us can be "ready for anything" -- with a clear mind, a clear deck, and clear intentions. Ready for Anything offers you ways to immediately: Clear your head for creativity; Focus your attention; Create structures that work; Take action to get things moving Allen's simple yet powerful principles help us master the mental game of productivity -- what he calls "managing your mind, not your time." In motivational, bite-size lessons, we learn how to bring the calm focus of the martial artist to the onslaught of choices, decisions, and new circumstances we are faced with daily. Each principle -- from "speed up by slowing down" to "the value of a future goal is the present change it fosters" -- encourages us to think in fresh ways and to take action in order to achieve more relaxed control, ease, and fun in all our activities. With wit, inspiration, and know-how, Ready for Anything shows us how to make things happen with less effort, stress, and ineffectiveness, and lots more energy, creativity, and clarity. This is the perfect audiobook for anyone wanting to work and live at their very best.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member cjthomas

Good, but only marginally expands upon the original GTD release. Many topics revisited.

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LibraryThing member wenestvedt

A bunch of vignettes, each illustrating one principle of productivity. I think he'd secretly prefer us to liken them koans, but that's just pushing it.

LibraryThing member donp

This book might've been more useful had I not already pored through the bigger GTD websites and got my hands on the old, out-of-print Getting Things Done Fast audios.

LibraryThing member annkucera

I've been listening to David Allen's Ready for Anything this week along with Getting Things Done - his first book. One comment that he made in Ready for Anything summarizes why I like his approach so much. He said that some of the best projects he has created were never on his lists. He has very

detailed lists of action items, projects and his reference material is extremely organized. Getting organized is similar to both feng shui and yoga in that what you get out of it is not necessarily limited to the meager benefits that you were expecting. When you are organized you can take advantage of unexpected opportunities, you have more creativity, and you can handle any setbacks you experience with power.

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LibraryThing member KillerRoo

While I really enjoyed this follow-up, there were less take-aways to be found than expected. Great for re-vitalizing my excitement about using the GTD system, only okay for real and concrete instructions. I may find it better after I have the full GTD system in place but for now, Getting Things

Done and Making It All Work are the essential titles in the series.

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LibraryThing member capiam1234

If read through and set aside this book really has little value, but if you read through it once and then used as a reference for that you go to daily for the next few months until the GTD system becomes habit then this book is worth every penny.

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LibraryThing member ChuckS65

I am stuck between a 3 and 4 star rating. The content is good, but you have to go through a lot to mine those good nuggets. Since I enjoyed Getting Things Done so much, I was expecting something more.

LibraryThing member JechtShot

Ready for Anything is a companion book to David Allen’s Getting Things Done. The book is comprised of 52 reflections/essays on various aspects of the GTD methodology. The content was okay, but I found the book rather distracting because the author found a need to seed the book with quotes with

little thought to placement. Here is a great idea of how to implement — insert 1/2 page quote here — and back to my great thought. If you are into the GTD thing it may be worth the read. If not, skip it.

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LibraryThing member Kavinay

It reads like Jimmy James' book of wisdom from Newsradio.

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