GTD-the art of stress-free work

Recommended: 3 stars

Reading Time: 6-8 hours

This book is a classic in time management that is highly respected by everyone. I read it with worship. The difference from the time investment law is that this book emphasizes clearing our minds, so that we don't have to worry about daily affairs, so that we can focus on everything in a serial way. At the same time, teaching us how to manage everything we should handle, and reminding us at the right time and in the environment through the system we created (rather than our brain, to achieve the goal of efficient work. The Time Investment Law emphasizes that, through reasonable use of time, you can determine what you do not do, so as to maximize the income of time investment. The obvious difference between the two lies in that one is over-emphasizing the efficiency of unit time, the other is to emphasize how to save time from other places and invest more time to things with maximum benefits. Which is better? It varies from person to person. We can use it together in real life.

Another difference is that the attitude of this book to deal with events is all in detail and is incorporated into management. In the time investment law, the book recommends that you examine yourself, entrust others, and outsource professional services, by removing unnecessary tasks, you can save a large amount of fragmented time overhead to save time.

The focus of this book is as follows.

The author emphasizes the importance of a task "start. A good start, half of success. A plan, once started, is followed by a proper solution. This is one of the reasons why GTD management is used. Only through GTD will the three or five years after the goal into a specific event, and into the plan, and begin to execute. A few years later, the goal will naturally be achieved.

 

Any method of time management emphasizes the importance of Weekly Review, and this book is no exception. It can be said that GTD is basically invalid if you do not perform Weekly Review. In implementation, weekly review is also a difficult environment, because it requires a part of time (more or less) every week to review the results of the previous week, make plans and arrangements for the next week and beyond. For the other several aspects of GTD, we only need to carry out the work.

 

Each step of GTD is described in a separate chapter. Five actions:

Collection, processing, management, action, and review.

Each chapter is very detailed and can be focused on reading.

 

The big gains are a series of lists that need to be created in the book. If you are interested, you can use them:

Pending list, errands list, read/review list, clear plenty list, shopping list, separate list for a person (leaders or relatives), fragmented time list, agenda List

And so on.

 

Finally, let's talk about the feelings:

1. Getting started with GTD. Since we have been familiar with GTD, it is not that obvious to read this book.

2. A lot of nonsense. A lot of questions are explained in one or two sentences. It is not enough to give an example here. I have to come back with another one.

3. Poor translation. In some places, I still read a section in the cloud and see the cloud.

 

In general, this is an entry-level book of GTD, hoping that this book will bring more valuable ideas and gains to those who have never touched on GTD.

If you are interested, refer to the entry-level GTD Time Management System (required:

Http://www.mifengtd.cn/articles/start-gtd.html

 

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