The art of focusing. How to keep things in order

The book will be useful both for those who want to learn how to plan their employment, and for those who are susceptible to constant fatigue, stress, anxiety due to “turnover” at work.

Description

Name: How to keep things in order. Principles of a fulfilling life without stress (English: Making Work: Winning Game Work Business Life)

This book is a continuation of the bestseller "". On its pages, the author tried to find application for his GTD method not only at work, but also in everyday life person. The work will be useful both for those who want to learn how to plan their employment, and for those who are subject to constant fatigue, stress, and anxiety due to “turnover” at work.

David Allen himself wrote in the foreword: “Our reality and our tasks are becoming increasingly difficult to formulate and ambiguous as life constantly becomes more complex. To get this whole thing going and keep it going, we need to think more about our way of thinking and applying the results of that thinking to different areas of our lives and work.”

Main idea This book is about transforming the GTD formula from a tool for a businessman into a universal mechanism for planning all employment - both at work and at home. This allows you to plan your time, save it, and avoid haste and related inconveniences. Allen's new creation is wider, deeper and therefore bigger.

About the author

David Allen- expert, consultant in matters of time management and personal productivity. At the university he specialized in the study of American history. After graduating from college, D. Allen spent quite a long time looking for his place in life. According to his own assurance, he changed at least 35 professions before the age of 35. Today Allen heads own company, which provides coaching in the areas of effective management and productivity, although he himself very rarely conducts public seminars. He is also one of the founders of Actioneer Inc, a company that specializes in the production of office supplies.

Effective use of time and energy is perhaps the main problem of a modern busy person. David Allen, creator of the legendary Getting Things Done system and bestselling author of Getting Things Done and How to Keep Things Done, has made it his life's work to develop stress-free methods for increasing productivity.

This book is not only a great start for those who have just decided to get things in order and are intimidated by the scale of the work, but also for experienced GTD users who need to quickly check the state of affairs and correct course in time. Previously, the book was published under the title “How to quickly get things in order.” Fifty-two short chapters of the book are “effective perspectives and behaviors that apply anywhere, anytime” and make life better.

A book for everyone who wants to live as efficiently as possible without extra effort.

On our website you can download the book “Putting life in order. Express course on GTD technique" Allen David for free and without registration in fb2, rtf, epub, pdf, txt format, read the book online or buy the book in the online store.

The book “How to Get Things in Order” gave readers a specific vector of development. A new book will give you confidence in your abilities.

Original title: Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life
Russian name: How to keep things in order. Principles of a fulfilling life without stress
Year of publication: 2010
Posted by David Allen

Publisher's foreword to David Allen's new book

“How to Keep Things in Order” is a continuation of the cult world and Russian bestseller “How to Keep Things in Order.” In this book, David Allen has refined his technique to be applied to all areas of life, not just the workplace. How to Keep Things Done explains why Getting Things Done (GTD) works and offers eleven models to help you set up a GTD system for long-term trouble-free operation in any industry.

Personal review “How to keep things in order”

To make our lives meaningful and fulfilling, we must be able to start and complete our affairs: manage our world in such a way that we get the desired events and results as a result. It is not without reason that the key components of success are the right choice and its effective implementation. Endless stream books, seminars and consulting programs overwhelm us, although initially it was intended to facilitate the decision-making process, teach us how to develop plans and set goals, help us define our values, and inspire our subordinates. Today, all kinds of techniques and tools are available that help self-organization, teach you how to use time effectively and increase productivity. But there is no main thing - a fundamental understanding of the essence, dynamics and effectiveness of these processes as a whole. The question arises: is there any logical, systematic and understandable way to gain this understanding?

Vital important question For modern man: how to keep everything under control, direct the situation in the right direction, act as efficiently as possible and at the same time not become exhausted either mentally or physically? The answer was suggested by David Allen, the author of the legendary book “Getting Things Done” (GTD), which saved thousands of grateful readers from under the rubble of current affairs of varying degrees of urgency and complexity.

This book is about why the technique works and how to expand its scope. Eleven proposed models will help configure the GTD system for long, trouble-free operation. And to do this, understand what creates internal discomfort for you; select and prioritize; learn to remain confident in any development of events.

Allen has refined his technique to apply to all areas of life, not just the workplace.

The new book will give you confidence in your abilities. Indeed, in conditions of an eternal lack of security and stability, the only thing that is really worth fighting for is permanence. It turns into a saving straw in a whirlpool of endless changes.

Since we're talking about books, I want to mention another new product, this time from the field of self-organization - this is How to Keep Things in Order, the Russian edition of David Allen's third book, Making It All Work, to which I had the honor of writing the foreword. The book was published by Mann, Ivanov and Ferber.

The book is based on a revised model that combines all the basic tools of the first book into one whole. I can say that the book fortunately fell into my hands precisely at the moment when I felt the need to seriously restructure my lifestyle, and it greatly helped me cope with this task. I recommend it to anyone who feels that it’s time to put things in order - in their head, in their living and working space and in their affairs.

The text of my preface to the book:

To follow a difficult route, you need a map. This simple metaphor applies well to the routes of our lives, which today are becoming more chaotic and confusing. In his new book, How to Keep Things Done, David Allen presents his approach, known as GTD, as just such a road map to help you stay on track and achieve your goals in the most unpredictable circumstances.

This book will especially help those who feel that the track is getting more and more difficult, the speed is getting higher, and the visibility is getting worse. Start reading it and you will see how the road becomes clearer and the area around you takes on more inspiring shapes.

Allen's new book is the result of a lot of work, and this is immediately obvious. What looked like a spontaneous revelation in the first book has been thought out and tested a thousand times. Allen's approach has acquired depth and harmony, for the sake of which the author even diverges from his earlier self once or twice, although not to the detriment of reality - he still carefully avoids overly smooth constructions and magic numbers.

Just two words for GTD practitioners: a must read. “How to keep things in order” is an opportunity to see the whole picture where there once was a set of tools, to understand these tools themselves in a new way, evaluate your successes and set new goals for yourself.

Self-organization does not mean putting everything around you in a sterile order. Its goal, as Allen rightly says, is the freedom necessary for a creative, truly full life. A feeling of greater freedom will constantly accompany you throughout this book, and many things will naturally fall into place as you read.

Of course, to achieve real results you need not only to read, but also to act: try, repeat, fantasize, ask questions. However, in our case, the transition from knowledge to action turns out to be not at all difficult - after all, this book is dedicated to how to act.

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Comment (already 9)

I remember the introduction of the GTD system greatly changed my life. Then I read Stephen Covey’s book, and now I’m gradually putting his advice into practice. However, I don’t want to get acquainted with Alain’s new works—apparently, there’s no need.

I also didn't think I'd need anything else after Getting Things Done, and when I started reading Making It All Work, I wasn't sure I'd learn anything new. But it was not a matter of new information, but a new level of understanding.

This morning I read Vitaly Kolesnik’s latest post about David Allen’s new book, “How to Keep Things in Order,” published in Russian. I wrote about this book when I bought it in January in Dubai. […]

In the terrible heat and smokehouse of this summer Moscow region, all I could do was dip my feet in the bathtub and carefully read GTD. The translation, of course, was a little disappointing. But this did not affect my understanding, since I have been closely occupied with this topic since 1965. I believe that any intellectual is simply obliged to have this “ambush regiment” in his arsenal. The book is very good! Of course, it needs additions and improvement (namely the book). This is what I’m doing now, taking notes, and then - as usual - I’ll rewrite it in my own way and distribute it to students of Moscow University Institute of Physics and Technology, where I have the honor of teaching for over 50 years. Please accept my assurances of respect. The topic you are dealing with on this blog is extremely important. Kapustyan Viktor Mikhailovich.

Publisher: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2010

ISBN 978-5-91657-104-2

Number of pages: 400.