Book Review: Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen is seriously the best book for getting your life together bar none.

How many of you have felt like you wanted more hours in a day?

How many of you feel your stress is out of control?

How many of you feel like your work/home/family/health is out of balance?

You know back in the day I had a freakin' Trapper Keeper. You remember those things? I thought I was the BOMB. A place for everything and it looked, well, it was sexy. It was powerful. It showed the world I was a Type A 3rd Grade Driver.

But I never used it.

And later in my life when I was older and more worldly and more bitter and stuff, I bought the Daytimer, Franklin Covey etc.... Huge planners. They weighed more than my car. And unlike when I was in 3rd grade- I KNEW I would never use them. It felt icky. Dishonest. Like I was lying to myself. And then I was even more down on myself for the fact that I just wasted money and didn't get value from the 200 pound paperweight that was supposed to fix me.

So I gave up. I would NOT be organized. That's it. Plain and Simple.

Until Amazon recommended this book somehow. (Do they sneak into my office at night? Spooky.)

Anyway, so I bought this book and right now I will give you 3 reasons why you need to race out and buy this right now and why you will email me a thank you after you do,

1) David's Natural Planning Model takes away all of the stress of planning and daily organization, making it organic and easy. Really. And when you get the stress out of your head, it leaves room for peace and harmony and all kinds of fun stuff.

2) His flowchart for dealling with "STUFF" (people, ideas, email, bills, papers, articles, projects etc) is simply amazing. You can sneak a peek at this while you are drinking a latte at bookstore- the first 40 pages are everything you really need. So 40 pages and you rework your life. That's called good time management right?

3) I have a fun thing I do with his system. I take a picture with my phone of our project board that comes from this book.. I do this daily and it shows me where things are plus I always get the benefit of knowing that EVERYTHING I am doing is moving forward! Small steps taken daily! It's really neat.

Bonus: If you want to see this in action, drop me a line and I will email you some photos real time of how this works. I don't sell anything or want anything from you unless you want to buy or sell a house in Utah!

After you read this book and implement it, would you drop me a line and let me hear how you did? I love how many people have done this and we all can build from each other. Thanks and Enjoy!