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Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life

Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life

In Getting Things Done, David Allen offered a breakthrough system to enhance productivity-at work and in daily life. Now "the guru of personal productivity" (Fast Company) asks readers what is holding them back and shows how they can be ready for anything-with a clear mind, a clear deck, and clear intentions.

Based on Allen's highly popular e-newsletter, Principles of Productivity, Ready for Anything offers fifty-two principles to clear your head, focus productively, create structures that work, and get in motion, including:
* stability on one level opens creativity on another
* you can't win a game you haven't defined
* the value of a future goal is the present change it fosters

With wit, motivational insights, and inspiring quotes, Ready for Anything shows readers how to make things happen with less effort, stress, and ineffectiveness, and lots more energy, creativity, and clarity. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to work and live at their very best.

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Authors: David Allen
Binding: Hardcover; 192 pages
Publication Date: 6/5/08
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN: 0670032506
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Amazon.com^® Average Rating: (4.0)

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(4) Good Answer To The Why's of Organization

Full disclosure: I am already a David Allen fan from Getting Things Done. GTD is definitely more comprehensive, in terms of how-to. However, Ready For Anything gets to more of the why -- why being organized contributes to a better life, why the right productivity matters. If you are looking for a how-to system, I would start with GTD. If you are looking for inspiration and a mission, I would start with Ready For Anything and supplement with GTD for the specifics. The quotes throughout are well-placed and excellent. The four sections create a logical structure for the free flowing advice. The By The Way at the end of each chapter are a quick review of that chapter theme. All in all, I found Ready For Anything to be a powerful collection of insights as to why organization and productivity matter in the first place. This provides a good jolt if you haven't been organized thus far and a powerful reminder to keep going.

(5) A Fire Burns After a Storm

1) read Getting THings Done. The knowledge inside this work has been so powerful it has even effected how I sleep; much better. The information here is life changing but like most revivals it can be like thunder a loud exciting burst followed by stillness. Read ahead---->

2) get Ready for Anything 52 Principles.... I read a chapter from this book everymorning, after listening to GTD, and it has helped me through the most difficult part; maintaining enough enthusiam and focus to make it a way of life. The chapters are short to the point and filled with everyday, real life, easy to digest reminders on getting things done.

The fire is still burning well after the storm.

(5) Allen in Bite Sized Bits of Wisdom

Anything David Allen writes is something I'm going to read. Even if he slips one day and writes a "bad" book, it will no doubt have at least three ideas that can change your life.

Allen condenses 52 "principles" into brief, powerful, and to the point pages. Get it!

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In Getting Things Done, David Allen offered a breakthrough system to enhance productivity-at work and in daily life. Now "the guru of personal productivity" (Fast Company) asks readers what is holding them back and shows how they can be ready for anything-with a clear mind, a clear deck, and clear intentions.

Based on Allen's highly popular e-newsletter, Principles of Productivity, Ready for Anything offers fifty-two principles to clear your head, focus productively, create structures that work, and get in motion, including:
* stability on one level opens creativity on another
* you can't win a game you haven't defined
* the value of a future goal is the present change it fosters

With wit, motivational insights, and inspiring quotes, Ready for Anything shows readers how to make things happen with less effort, stress, and ineffectiveness, and lots more energy, creativity, and clarity. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to work and live at their very best.

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"Mastering the game of work and the business of life-from the bestselling author of Getting Things Done In his bestselling first book, Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen presented his breakthrough methods to increase efficiency. Now "the personal productivity guru" (Fast Company) shows readers how to increase their ability to work better, not harder-every day. Based on Allen's highly popular e-newsletter, Ready for Anything offers readers 52 ways to immediately clear your head for creativity, focus your attention, create structures that work, and take action to get things moving. With wit, inspiration, and know-how, Allen shows readers how to make things happen-with less effort and stress, and lots more energy, creativity, and effectiveness. Ready for Anything is the perfect book for anyone wanting to work and live at his or her very best."