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How to do more, with less effort.
I wrote it in 2015, after years of looking for a way to organize myself that wouldn’t take more time than the things I had to organize.
It is not a motivation book. It won’t tell you to get up at five in the morning or to visualize your success. It is a short method, twelve points, that reads in an afternoon and is set up with a box, a notebook and a pencil.
Where it comes from
From a problem of mine. I had an interesting job, a reasonable life and tension levels that wouldn’t let me enjoy either of them. I tried emotional coaching, I tried the Covey method, I tried going on holiday. The holiday works for a week.
What ended up working was taking things out of my head and putting them in a trusted place outside it. That is the whole book. The rest is the instructions.
There is a good deal of David Allen’s Getting Things Done in it, summarized and without the parts I never used. There are also things I worked out on my own that he probably wouldn’t have liked.
What’s inside
The twelve-point Control List, which is the whole book on one page.
How to set up the inbox tray, the archive, the Roadmap and the weekly review. How long each one takes, which is less than you think.
The difference between a project and an action, which looks obvious and is the thing that unsticks almost everything.
Email to zero, with no application tricks: it is four rules.
And the afternoon I gave a talk at a town council, where the councillor of Culture concluded, after sleeping through the conference, that the solution would be for the day to have more hours.
What it isn’t
It isn’t long. Sixty pages. If you want a treatise, there are better and thicker treatises.
It promises nothing you can’t check within a week. Either you go to bed with an emptier head or you don’t.
The book
In PDF and EPUB, to read wherever you want. It downloads as soon as you pay.
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It exists in Spanish too, as Productividad para Holgazanes. And there are two other books.