Eh, I got one or two nuggets of wisdom for this book, but overall I found the text to be a little repetitive and not that insightful compared to other productivity books like David Allen's Getting Things Done and Cal Newport's Deep Work. The main insights I took away be briefly summarized as follows:
* "Tomorrow Line" in your planner (where anything below will be NOT be actioned today)
* Closed lists vs. Open lists (and only focusing on "Closed Lists" on any given day, that can't be expanded further)

Great content! The system is super simple and powerful. I'm just now starting to put it into use, and I'm starting to see results already. (One of those results being how much I need to improve. ;-) ) I found the little tests rather pedantic/annoying.

Мне что-то совсем не зашло, хотя я много хороших отзывов слышал об этой книге. Продолжаю планировать, как планировал.

Enjoyed his ideas and found the book humorous as well. Less complex and more accessible than gtd.

I absolutely LOVE this book! This is my second time reading it and I will read it many more times. So many great ideas - and contrary to most productivity systems!

Will focus my efforts on creating closed Will-Do lists and focusing on the least urgent tasks first (so they never become ugent!).

Love his ideas for "tricking" your mind into getting things done, his filing system and "little and often".

I will be searching out this author's other books!

The methods here are proving helpful to me, particularly a couple that differ from Getting Things Done. First, only doing a thing now if it is truly urgent, even if it is a simple thing that can be done quickly. That buffer reduces the exhausting switching from one thing to another that, as a mom, I have to do enough of already. Second, closed lists, as opposed to lists you keep adding to. I really like this idea of always writing things down on the “do it tomorrow” list, and there’s your day’s will-do list for tomorrow. I’m not trying to get ahead, get things off my mind, etc in a stressed way; I’m more comfortable in my work. My email is also routinely dealt with now in the same way: all yesterday’s email I usually handle in one sitting and leave today’s emails for tomorrow.

There’s much more and all of it very useful. I listened to this but bought a paper copy to refer to as I’m putting things into practice. Very thankful for this book and the author’s work.

A lot of good practical insights on time management. Very simple and clear.

A phenomenal book that turns traditional time management practices on their head. Much of what Forster recommends is rooted in not only neurological understandings of the brain but also rooted in common sense. My only quibble is that Forster seems to have moved on from the method described in this book and onto the new Autofocus system described on his website. Nevertheless, there is a ton of useful information described in this book that has much to recommend it.

I have been a lifelong procrastinator, and suddenly I am finding myself not just staying on top of emails and post and boring household admin, but am starting to peck away at the years-long backlog of stuff that has built up and been pressing down on my conscience and making me stressed.

My husband did ridicule me for spending several hours reading a book on time management (instead of actually getting on with doing things), but I am so glad I spent the time doing so, because at last I feel like I might be evolving into someone who gets everything done on time, and also doesn't feel guilty about doing fun stuff as well.

This book really has already made an impact on my behaviour, and I'm hoping that when I've settled into the routines and structures then the changes will be permanent.

Some of the things that made a lot of sense to me were:

- For many reasons, checklists with a finite number of tasks on them work much better than to-do lists that just keep getting bigger and bigger
- If you keep track of what work is coming in each day, you will know what your daily workload is, and can either allocate time to do each item, or realise that you've got waaaaay too many commitments and can't possibly do everything in one day, so must change some of those commitments.
- If you are resisting doing something you can trick your subconscious mind into submission. So saying to yourself "I'm not going to start project X today, but I will just create a new document/spreadsheet for it" is so much more likely to get you started on the project than saying "I am going to work on project X". And saying "I'm not going to go for a run, but I will just put my jogging clothes on" is more likely to get you exercising than saying "I will go for a 5-mile run today"

wish i had found this more helpful...

Very good, simple and practical techniques for time management that you can start applying today. Oh no, that's for tomorrow!

http://www.anhyunhwan.com/books/2017/...