Tag Archive 'Books'

May 12 2004

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Published by Steve Richards under Uncategorized

Just finished my first read of this book, (it really needs reading twice), and found it pretty good.  Unfortunately it also left me being very frustrated because the methodology proposed is so well supported by the outlook Add-in, and I have to use Lotus Notes.  There is a template for Notes, but so far as I can figure it only seems to be available through coaching sessions.

There are some very good blogs on how to refine the methodolgy:

http://blogs.officezealot.com/marc/archives/000582.html

http://www.shahine.com/omar/PermaLink,guid,a8bb7588-179d-4d6f-aa5e-703ea2275e57.aspx

and of course Dave’s blog

http://david.davidco.com/

One of the key concepts in the book is, “A mind like water”, ie emptying the mind so that it can focus on what needs to be done.  The concept is sometimes misunderstood and there is a great post here that explains it very well.

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May 12 2004

Flow

Published by Steve Richards under Uncategorized

An interesting book that takes 300 plus pages to describe what it probably could do in 20.  The basic idea, you are happiest when you are involved or imersed in what you are doing.  It then gives loads of examples of how this can happen in sports, music, work etc.  Not the most practical book on the subject of happiness and it seems to neglect lots of things in pursuit of the Flow concept.  For example it does not talk at all about the effect on happiness of advertising, too much choice, not living in the moment etc.

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