Non-Fiction Capsule Review: Ready for Anything by David Allen. This book is a follow-up to Allen's Getting Things Done, which for the unfamiliar is a time management / productivity guide. I've been attempting GTD for about six months now. I've had some success with it. It certainly has helped with paperwork and filing. Before I bought my filing cabinet I had a year's worth of unopened mail in a cardboard box. Now I process things as they come into my inbox. And Allen's suggestion of a tickler file has come in very handy as well.
My GTD failings come in completing my "next actions" in a timely fashion and sticking to a weekly review schedule (hence #31 which unfortunately I am way behind on). So, it is a work in progress. But I can recommend GTD anyone interested in getting organized.
Unfortunately my recommendation can't extend to his second book Ready for Anything. It is pretty much a repackaging of blog posts and newsletter articles. Ready for Anything is well-written but being a technical geek, the detailed implementation and informative how-tos of the Getting Things Done book appealed to me more.
His third book, Making It All Work, is on the list at some point. Note that one thing I didn't attempt with Ready for Anything was seriously contemplating the discussion questions for each chapter. So, if you do read it, try that - might have more of an impact.
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