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Productivity books and methods. Who uses them?
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| Akridrot |
Does anyone else here actually use these books in their work or personal life? Did they help you a lot (would you swear by those books or methods) or a little bit (good ideas here and there)?
Or have your own personal methods served you well so far?
I'm reading this one book and I like how it's going so far. He focuses on personal life and stuff that you actually care about besides just work (From life goals, to foods you want to try and movies you want to watch, maybe/someday goals, intelligently separating things you only work on when you can, and things you have to work on until they're done, etc.)
A tiny example he has is for when you have an asset like a really large letter or poster that can't fit in a folder. Just write down it's location and description (02/01/08 red poster, behind door) on an index card to represent it in your folder and no need to worry. I like that, because I would have probably done something like buy a bigger folder or big box. |
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| inconspicuous |
| I've never had the motivation to pick one up. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
I've never had the motivation to pick one up. |
I bet that applies to any book period. :haha: |
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| inconspicuous |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
I bet that applies to any book period. :haha: |
whoosh. |
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| nchs09 |
| i cant readz too good so i buy not books. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
A tiny example he has is for when you have an asset like a really large letter or poster that can't fit in a folder. Just write down it's location and description (02/01/08 red poster, behind door) on an index card to represent it in your folder and no need to worry. I like that, because I would have probably done something like buy a bigger folder or big box. |
That's ing stupid, imo. |
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| jdat |
business productivity, project management and the likes I have read plenty about.
Personal life management hell nah. I think these books are a load of crack |
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| Swamper |
How to win friends and infuence people - Dale Carnegie
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
Think and Grow Rich - Napolean Hill (Link / PDF)
These are pretty popular and there are reasons why - each has something worthwhile within them... some parts are complete but I'd recommend checking these out. I only 'read' the last one years ago, the others were more bearable as an audio book when sitting in traffic. |
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| Akridrot |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
That's ing stupid, imo. |
No. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
No. |
Yes. It's more inefficient, imo. Why would I crate MORE clutter in order to be more organized? Makes no sense, lol. |
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| Akridrot |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Yes. It's more inefficient, imo. Why would I crate MORE clutter in order to be more organized? Makes no sense, lol. |
Clutter makes it sound like you'd have a scattering of index cards and folders around your desk, each with a brief sentence describing everything you own from furniture to posters.
I could see this being really useful in certain situations for people who tend to forget things. If you have some large, important documents (posters is kind of a bad example, but still...) that you don't use frequently, you could neatly store them out of the way and use the index cards as reference when looking.
But don't be fooled, you (or I) don't have to follow every thing he says in this book down to the letter. It's very much a collection of ideas that could be followed on their own, with some "philosophy" behind it. Maybe my example wasn't the best or most practical, but he does have good ideas.
I'm in class right now so sorry for all the words. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
I could see this being really useful in certain situations for people who tend to forget things. If you have some large, important documents (posters is kind of a bad example, but still...) that you don't use frequently, you could neatly store them out of the way and use the index cards as reference when looking.
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Fair enough. I guess it's just strange to a person like me with such a tidy mind. |
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