I have learned GTD and tried many tools. But most of them are too complicated to implement practically to suit my own needs. Usually the GTD system have many things for me to worry about, such as labels, contexts, projects, and different levels of priority. Adding complexity to the management system sapped my energy that should be used to get real things done, and consequently led to the collapse of my planning. Then, I just abandoned my plans and lived as before, thinking that, well, this system should only be useful to those energetic businessmen who have a bunch of different tasks to deal with each day, not for people like me. “Zen To Done”, which I learned from a blog, offers a most simplified system to avoid this conundrum. This book provides a practical approach to manage tasks, time, and personal goals. The most important points in this book should be a simple and minimalist-taste task management system with specific goals in mind, and emphasis on the importance of setting routines and forming habits in a sane fashion. Sometimes, it is easy for one to get nonplussed by tasks or get lost in finishing tasks by “indulging” his/herself in doing trivial tasks with little value to his/her big goals. With year’s goal, week’s goal and daily MITs (Most Important Tasks) set in planning system in ZTD, one can easily find his/her way. All important tasks should be goal-centered. The author also writes that the ZTD system never forces you to change all your habits just in one night. Changing habits to accommodate to the new system takes energy. Changing too much habits at one time usually leads to giving up of the whole system. Everyone’s energy is limited and should focus on one thing at a time. Focus on fewer habits and after a year, a great deal can be achieved. This point is omitted by other management system and, IMHO, is the most important one in the book. This book offers not only its approaches on how to really “get things done” with stress on “do”, but also give an example and nice tables for readers to get a better sense of what an implementation of the ZTD system is actually like. Reading it is really worth the time.
A book whose value is far beyond its price
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ZTD之道,爲面之所向,免器之所累。
21有用 1无用 軒轅鍾書 2011-12-19
常尋時間管理之道,用GTD也好一段時間,而總覺着自己都忙着去使用工具了,而真正要做的事情卻沒做得好。而如此應運而生的ZTD,着實解決了逼人如此的難題。時間管理之道,重點就是做事情,任何工具只是輔助,切莫妨礙了自己做事的正道。亦即,做好我們真正要做的,即面之所向,才是真正時間管理之道。另一個最大的收穫...
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A book whose value is far beyond its price
1有用 0无用 Accessun 2015-06-28
I have learned GTD and tried many tools. But most of them are too complicated to implement practically to suit my own needs. Usually the GTD system ha...
书名: Zen To Done
作者: Leo Babauta
出版社: CreateSpace
副标题: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System
出版年: 2008-7-29
页数: 114
定价: USD 9.95
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9781438258485