Key insights from
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
What you'll learn
Do you need to accept excess stress as the nature of the twenty-first century beast? Or is it possible that there might be a comprehensive organizational system that can handle the demands of the Information Age while also making you more productive, creative, and stress-free? Knowledge workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your stress!
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 With the twenty-first century has come a better standard of living, but also mind-boggling complexity and stress.
- 2 A clear mind and productive action can be the rule rather than the exception.
- 3 Most of the stress that people deal with is the result of poorly managed obligations that they have knowingly or unknowingly accrued.
- 4 It takes some thought to figure out next steps, but not nearly as much as people would expect.
- 5 You don’t “do” a project—you take small concrete steps that culminate in its completion.
- 6 People would be less stressed if they had a way of collecting all the incomplete tasks in a centralized “bucket.”
- 7 Defining what you have collected is essential to determining whether you will do it or trash it.
- 8 Get your lists straight and review them weekly to keep yourself sane and on track.
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