Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life
David Allen · ★★★★☆ · 286 pages · 2003
Marking It All Work is a continuation of the GTD work that Allen has done continuing on the theme of how to make life and work more productive. I am not a strict adherent to GTD but maybe do 60% of the tasks that Allen recommends and even just doing that has been great to focus me into what I am trying to achieve and create.
The main things I took out of the book:
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Have a place where you write everything. This one has helped me the most as it empties out my head of all the ideas good and bad.
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Have next actions for tasks that you need to do. This way your tasks have logical next actions that either you or someone else can do.
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Create a weekly review where you review all the projects that you have on hand and attempt to go through and close, redefine or finish them.
There is other stuff but all of that is better explained in other books. But just doing the three things above has helped me be more focused.