Description
Discover David Allen’s powerful productivity principles and vastly increase your ability to work better, not harder—every day. In his bestselling first book, Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen presented his breakthrough methods of personal organization that he has taught in seminars across the country and at top organizations such as Microsoft, L.L. Bean, and the U.S. Navy.

Now “the guru of personal productivity” has readers what’s hold them back and shows how all of us can be “ready for anything”—with a clear mind, a clear deck, and clear intentions. Based on Allen’s highly popular e-newsletter, Ready for Anything offers 52 ways to immediately: 

• Clear your head for creativity Focus your attention 
• Create structures that work Take action to get thigs moving 
• Taken together Allen’s simple yet powerful principles help us master the mental game of productivity—what he calls “managing your mind, not your time.”

In motivational, bite-size lessons, we learn how to bring the calm focus of the martial artist to the onslaught of choices, decisions, ad new circumstances we are faced with daily. Each principle—from “speed up by slowing down” to “the value of a future goal is the present change it fosters”—encourages us to think in fresh ways about our behaviors, resistance, and strengths and to take action in order to achieve more relaxed control, ease, and fun in all our activities.

With wit, inspiration, and know-how, Ready for Anything shows readers how to make things happen with less effort, stress, and ineffectiveness, and lots more energy, reactivity, and clarity. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to work and live at their very best.

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0143034545
-13: 9780143034544
Format: Paperback, 192pp
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Edition Description: REPRINT
Pub date: 2005

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Making It Easy to Take It Easy
Part I: Clear Your Head for Creativity Or Getting the Loose Ends to Leave You Alone
Chapter 1. Cleaning up creates new directions.
Prepared for the Unknown?
Chapter 2. You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you’re not doing.
Why :Getting Organized” Usually Hasn’t Worked
Chapter 3. Knowing your commitments creates better choices of new ones.
When the Center Is the Edge
Chapter 4. Getting to where you’re gong requires knowing where you are.
Forget the Future—Just Get a Grip
Chapter 5. Infinite opportunity is utilized by finite possibility.
The One-Minute Workflow Manager
Chapter 6. Two commitments in your head create stress and failure.
Getting Things Done: Reactive or Responsive?
Chapter 7. Priorities function only at the conscious level.
The Danger of “Not as Important” Projects
Chapter 8. Closing open loops releases energy.
The Magical Mundane
Chapter 9. If it’s on your mind, it’s probably not getting done.
The ABCs of Psychic RAM
Chapter 10. Creativity shows up when there’s space.
Is This All There Is!
Chapter 11., The deeper the channel, the greater the flow.
Are You Really Ready for More?
Chapter 12. Worry is a waste.
Getting Thinking off Your Mind
Chapter 13. You are not your work.
The Big Secret About My Lists
Part II. Focus Productivity Or What’s the Point of a Point of View?
Chapter 14. For more clarity, look from a higher place.
The Play of the Day
Chapter 15. You won’t see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.
Waking Up Again to Making It Up Again
Chapter 16. Working hard enough is impossible.
Is It Overtime All the Time?
Chapter 17. Energy follows thought.
What Are You Putting in Front of Your Door?
Chapter 18. The clearer your purpose, the more ways to fulfill it.
Are You Living in Your Living Room?
Chapter 19. Best is much better than good.
How to Be Invincible
Chapter 20. A Change in focus equals a change in result.
Are Your Ready for “Ready”?
Chapter 21. Perspective is the most valuable commodity on the planet.
Bootstrapping Yourself into Better
Chapter 22. You have to think about your stuff more than you think.
Productivity Doesn’t Happen by Itself
Chapter 23. You don’t have to think about your stuff as much as you’re afraid you might.
Being Complete with Your Incompletions
Chapter 24. If you know what you’re doing, efficiency is the only improvement opportunity.
Stress Transcendence
Chapter 25. Only one thing on your mind is “in the zone.”
How Important Is Anything but the Most Important Thing?
Chapter 26. The value for a future goal is the present change it fosters.
To Do or to Be? Or Is That the Question?
Part III. Create Structures That Work Or It’s Hard to Stay on Track Without Rails
Chapter 27. Stability on one level opens creativity on another.
Organization and Creativity: Friends or Foes?
Chapter 28. Form and function must match for maximum productivity.
The Visionary and the Doer—a Personal Division of Labor
Chapter 29. Your system has to be better than your mind for your mind to let go.
Can Your Mind Keep Its New Job?
Chapter 30. Response ability improves viability.
The Disorder Drug
Chapter 31. Your system is only as good as its weakest link.
How Is Your Wiring Firing?
Chapter 32. The effectiveness of your system is inversely proportional to your awareness of it.
System Success: Silent Running
Chapter 33. Function follows form.
Which Parts of Your Pot Need Stirring?
Chapter 34. You can’t win a game you haven’t defined.
The Scary Swampland Between Thinking and Drug
Chapter 35. Whenever two or more are responsible for something, usually nobody is.
The Inner Committee
Chapter 36. Prime your principles instead of policing your policies.
You Are at Your Best When…
Chapter 37. Use your mind to think about your work, instead of thinking of it.
Is Form Formless?
Chapter 38. You are thinking more valuably than you may think.
Freedom and Form Fun
Chapter 39. The necessity to plan and organize is inversely proportional to your perceived resources.
Why the Human Race Is Taking So Long to Evolve
Part IV. Relax And Get in Motion Or How to Be Where the Action Is
Chapter 40. You’re the only one playing your game.
The New Fundamentals Chapter 41. Too controlled is out of control.
Are You an “Organizing Groupie”?
Chapter 42. The better you get, the better you’d better get.
Jump!
Chapter 43. Trusting your action choice requires multilevel self-management.
It’s 9:45 in the Morning, What Should I Do?
Chapter 44. Your power is proportional to your ability to relax.
The Freedom/Productivity Equation
Chapter 45. Surprises, expected, are no surprise.
Productivity Peering into the Pit
Chapter 46. The longer your horizon, the smoother your moves.
The Rhythm of Things Chapter 47. You speed up by slowing down.
Should the Pot Simmer?
Chapter 48. You don’t have time to do any project.
The Subtle Sirens of the “Long Term”
Chapter 49. Small things, done consistently, create major impact.
The Critical 20 Percent
Chapter 50. You have to do something to know something.
Who’s Really Interested in Productivity? (I Mean , Really?)
Chapter 51. It’s easier to move when you’re in motion.
Overwhelmed? Take the Helm
Chapter 52. The biggest successes come from the most failures.
The Year of Better Choices
Part V. Remind Yourself of The Fundamentals Or Common Sense Isn’t That Common
The Five Phases of Workflow Mastery
Processing and Organizing Workflow
The Natural Planning Model
The Weekly Review
Afterword

Book author
David Allen is the author of Getting Thigns Doneand president of the David Allen Company and has more than two decades’ experience as a management consultant, executive coach, and educator. He has been called one of the world’s most influential thinkers on productivity and ha been a keynote speaker and facilitator for organizations such as Merck, the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, and New York Life. His work has been features in Fortune, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. His newsletter, Principles of productivity, ha more than thirty thousand subscribers. He lives in Ojai, California.

Reviews
“In fifty-two short chapters, David Allen shares his principles for ‘mastering the game of work and the business of life.’ No one make the challenges of productivity more understandable and manageable.” – Rob Johnston, President of Leader to Leader Institute

“What a stimulating does of uncommon sense! These powerful and practical pointers for living a more productive life are as subtle and rich as they are simple. David Allen is a master at marrying the sensible with the sublime.” – Arianna Huffington “David Allen’s productivity principles are rooted in big ideas. but they’re also eminently practical.” – Keith H. Hammonds, Fast Company “David Allen’s strategies for getting on top of your workload are invaluable!” – Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Whale Done!

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