From Clutter to Clarity
by Marshall Allen

I never considered e-mail a source of stress until I read Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen. Allen, who is not related to me, has spent decades as an executive coach and management consultant. His goal is to help people manage their lives so they achieve more without losing their minds, or sacrificing their personal values.

Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done provides tangible guidelines for sorting the information so nothing is lost, efficiency is increased and more is accomplished.

This guy sounds uptight, obsessive and humorless.

The disheveled doubter might shrug and retort: Who cares? 

Getting Things Done think

Allen believes the key to success is managing actions

Getting control of your life requires learning the five stages of mastering workflow. We collectthings that command our attention; process what they mean and what to do about them; organizethe results, which we review as options for what we choose to do.

Several of those tricks are worth the price of the book. For example, before I read Getting Things Done 

When I read Getting Things Done

Marshall Allen is a journalist in Pasadena, Calif.

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