Getting Things Done by David Allen (2003, Paperback, Reprint)

Outstanding. Provides organizational rules to live by. This book really helped me uncomplicate my life by providing specific, tactical, ways to organize your professional and personal lives in a manner that helps you stop worrying that you'll forget something. Plus, my items are easier to find now than ever.

After reading just the first chapter I was was sure I had gotten value for money. David Allen shares true insight on how to make your hardwork pay dividends. A must read for busy people!

Words like "groundbreaking," "landmark," and "revolutionary" don't normally apply to self-help books, but of all the books that could be classified as self-help manuals, this is one of the three I would recommend to nearly anyone. Here David Allen lays out a complete, concise schematic of a productivity system that puts everything in the right place. Any of the principles in GTD will work to some degree in isolation, but what this book does is organize them into a wholistic system for what Allen calls "self-management." Do you have a dozen things on your mind, like "get cat food" or "talk to Bob about the mail room situation," that you need to do but can't do at the moment? GTD (the popular acronym for "Getting Things Done") provides a guide for how to get all those to-do items out of your conscious and into a place where you'll still have them when you need them. Allen has said of his book that it requires several reads to fully understand, but understanding it is worth all the trouble and more. The reward is organization coupled with flexibility, as well as the ability to maintain them over time.

I bought it as a present for my significant other, a new law student. He's happy! :) So of course that means I'm happy too. I love him so much!

It was easy to read and understand. A helpful book, as it re-examines your thought process, in reference to organizing and prioritizing your life. Recommended. Only read it once so though, will need to read once again, to use it more effectively.

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I've read these kind of personal coaching books a lot, and usually begin with a detailed or even emotional description trying to address where the problem is and why this book could solve it, GTD(Getting Things Done) is no exception. The difference is , never before this problem elaboration had generate so much consent in me. The ever changing pace of the corporate life in this Information age did make us less efficient and in peace, if we still use old school self-management system. So in 'Getting things done' , the author explored the root reason why people feel stressed and how to build a personal system so everything could be recorded on paper and off our minds. Brilliant system, brilliant book!