From the library
Getting Things Done
David Allen, 2001
In one paragraph
David Allen's comprehensive system for capturing everything that has your attention, clarifying what it means to you, organizing the results, and engaging with confidence in your choices of what to do. Introduces the five-stage GTD methodology: capture, clarify, organize, reflect, and engage. Creates a 'mind like water' state where you can focus completely on the task at hand.
Also tagged
Where this sits in the operating system
Systems Over Goals
Systems Over Goals
Systems Over Goals
Focus & Essentialism
Key insights
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. Open loops consume attention whether or not you are working on them.
Capture everything, then decide the next physical action. Most stalled projects are stalled because the next action was never defined.
The weekly review is the load-bearing habit. Without it the system degrades into an untrusted list within a month.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Trying to keep everything in your head
Creating overly complex systems
Capturing without processing
Skipping weekly reviews
Confusing projects with actions
The same idea, argued differently
Sam Carpenter
Bill Bonney, Gary Hayslip, Matt Stamper
The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- David Allen
- Published
- 2001
- Category
- Self-Help
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