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Ready for Anything

52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life

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 Discover David Allen's powerful productivity principles and vastly increase your ability to work better, not harder -- every day.
The "guru of personal productivity" -- Fast Company -- 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.©2003 David Allen; (P)2003 Simon & Schuster Inc. All Rights Reserved. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc. Career Success Motivation & Self-Improvement Personal Development Personal Success
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David Allen is a productivity guru and this book moves on further with his philosophy of Getting Things Done. Each little essay is well written and they are very listenable. Putting his principles in to practice will help you gain a "mind like water" and generally unburden you from a lot of your everyday stress. Once you basically take on board the essence of GTD, you will find you have a better handle on a lot of the day to day struggle with work and with home.



If you have ever seen 43 things or 43 folders on the web, these websites all sprang from GTD and GTD is a worldwide phenomenon with a lot of avid followers. I have all three of his books and I was pleased to find this one on audio book, it suits the audio format well - i just wish that the original GTD and his third book Making It All Work were also available.

Follow up to the brilliant Getting Things Done

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One of those few books that really deserves to be read (listen).
Anybody interested in understanding the key elements of managing ourselves in an autonomous way cannot avoid to know what Allen is explaining here.

A must read

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A good choice if you're looking to fill the gap after reading David's Getting Things Done. This one is also full of really catchy quotes that stay with you long after you've finished the book.

Another classic from the author of GTD.

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Is there anything you would change about this book?

Give it more structure; more substance. Unexpectedly, not a single concrete system is described, suggested or explained, only rather vague general concepts and ideas.

Would you ever listen to anything by David Allen again?

Maybe

Would you be willing to try another one of David Allen’s performances?

Not for its own value - only if book came highly recommended

Was Ready for Anything worth the listening time?

Yes as it made going through traffic less boring and contained 2-3 inspirational ideas, much repeated

Vague inspiration

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There is a lot of subtle advise and core underlying GTD techniques and ways to think about how you implement and use GTD in all areas of your life. Highly recommend once you have implemented GTD for 6 months or more.

For the GTD practitioner

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