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Notes on Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life by David Allen

1. What are your current tasks? (100-200)
   • phone calls
   • emails
   • conversations
   • errands
   • brainstorming ideas
2. What are your current projects?
3. What are your current areas of responsibility?
   1. work
      1. staff development
      2. asset management
      3. planning
      4. customer service
   2. personal
      1. finances
      2. health
      3. family
      4. career
      5. household
      6. recreation
4. How are your job and personal affairs going to be changing over the next year?
   1. goals
   2. intentions for change
   3. large projects
5. How are your organization, career, and personal life going to change?
6. Why are you on the plannet?

5 steps

1. get everything out of your head
2. make decisions about actions required on stuff when it shows up
3. organize reminders of your projects and next actions on them in appropriate categories
4. keep your system current, complete, and reviewed sufficiently to trust your choices about what you're doing and not doing
5. focus on positive outcomes and continually take the next action on the most important thing

"It's possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches never quite sure." - Lee Segal

• if busy (action) & unclear: stop and review plans
• if planning (organization) & unclear: go to a whiteboard or blank piece of paper and do a mental coredump to get the ideas and information you may be missing
• if you are trying to freerange or get outside the box (brainstorming) & unclear: drop back and revisit the image of what success would look like
• if your picture is too illformed, return to your purpose