Getting Things Done: Going back to the well time and time again

I first read this book in 2008, when I had to lead a small team. It helped me to form the basis of how I do my work - since I had no ideas, no clue, no experience and no good teacher, I decided to:

1. read the book
2. steal everything in it
3. hope for the best

To my great surprise, it worked out quite well. And people (incorrectly) assumed I knew what I was doing. Little did they know I would go home at night and study to see WWDAD: What Would David Allen Do?

The next time I leaned on it HEAVILY was in 2011, after moving to Costa Rica. I was managing a bigger team, with bigger budgets and more responsibility and was once more out of my depth. I decided to go back to the well and simply repeated the same three steps.

Over the years, I have repeated this process with great success. And each time I read the book, it’s with a deeper level of understanding, so I can take more from the writing while paradoxically doing less and achieving better results. I lost my original copy when I moved to Costa Rica, so I bought a second copy. And I think I lost THAT copy when I moved to the Czech Republic, but I’m planning to hold on to this 3rd copy for good. Third time’s the charm and all that.

So, here I am again, going back to the well again almost 20 years later, and the well has yet to run dry.

If you haven’t given this book a read yet, I highly recommend it, it’s worked wonders for me.

David Allen - Getting Things Done

Of the hundreds of books I own, this one has probably the highest value page in any of them.

Lester

P.S

I even take this book to breakfast every now and again

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