“Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” by David Allen is well written, insightful, and more to the point, really comprehensive.

For those who are good at thinking and want results to match intentions, this book is phenomenal.

It started quite an Internet fad that is going strong, related software products, paper-based systems, etc., but for me the core principles boil down to a diagram minituarized on a 3×5 inch card I carry with me – or the full size paper hanging to my right by my desk.

If you buy one book in the next 10 years, let this be the one. Or, if you are super organized, you have little time management stress, and everything is getting done, don’t bother.

Of course, if that describes you, you’re more likely to buy it than not. If you’re all frazzled you probably don’t have the time to get control of all the things in your life that are problems and turn them into projects.

Riddle that one if you will.

Allen provides a complex system to handle complex life and it allows you to track and plan everything.

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

— Albert Einstein

Whether you use paper, electronic organizers, or you have stuff lying around the house… it doesn’t matter, you just apply your system and the stress dissolves.

By Christoph Dollis at 4:42 AM on Monday August 13th, 2007, and filed under GTD / Productivity.

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