The heading "Good books" introduces readers to useful books. And today a new review from Mary Mirzoeva, the author of the account @masha_sophie_days. The book " how to quickly put things in order. 52 principles of stress-free performance " by David Allen, Creator of Getting Things Done (GTD) personal performance improvement system.
In the decree, many are faced with chronic underachievement. I am no exception, because every year I write to myself in a new goal- " to keep up more." That is why I decided to turn to the GTD system, about which I heard a million times.
This system is described in David Allen's book Getting Things Done,or how to put things in order.
About the book
The ideal name, as for me: it seems that all blog -, business-and just moms tormented by the feeling that you need to redo a lot of things, and you do not know what to grab. This is a very painful state: our brain is constantly going through and digesting our plans and" imperfections", and we can not devote ourselves to something 100%, without any second thoughts, we can not catch a state of confidence, flow and buzz. We don't run our own Affairs.
For such martyrs (the author describes this condition in great detail in the first part of the book), David Allen has made an excellent, very popular and flexible system. Describe in detail it will not work-an article about GTD would be disproportionately huge. But there are a few General principles on which the system stands.
Plot, or General principles of the system
The main material — Wood
Not to keep everything in mind. Write out ALL all all plans and Affairs on leaf-entire information.
Your Affairs-this harvesting for your system. So-called - " Firewood»
Combine-in the Oven
Classify this information into lists/folders / projects — so that there is no vinaigrette and it would be easy to navigate. You will get the basis of your system-it is already a "Stove".
And in order for the system to work, you need to turn it on, that is
daily / weekly check,
update the data: something has already been done — cross out, something you need to start doing now to get the result in a week, etc.
We have lit a fire, and the wood is burning-things are done, the process goes on, and the system works.
Summarize
Of course, the GTD system has a lot of techniques, tools and life hacks:
how to store information (method 43 folders),
how to make lists, why just to do list for a day - does not work.
My hot tip — take the time to learn GTD — it will pay off! This system is also good because everyone can change it to suit their needs, because it is very flexible.
From the point of view of business management, the day of a blogger mom is not much different from the day of another businessman or Manager. A huge list of things to do today and in the future, phones, meetings, and more. In addition to the book, there are many blogs where people share their experiences with GTD.
Try it and you!