Audiobook (abridged)3 hours
Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life
Written by David Allen
Narrated by David Allen
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
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.
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.
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Reviews for Ready for Anything
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If 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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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good, but only marginally expands upon the original GTD release. Many topics revisited.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A 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.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Whether or not you know about David Allen and GTD, this book will help you become more productive and organized.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing content, really worth reading or listening. Thank you.