Great book!

Philosophical concepts as well as practical tips to improve your professional/personal productivity.

Ideas

· you can never be prepared for what is new
· open mind is open to everything
· think about the big things while doing
  the small ones
· if you’re not totally clear about the purpose
  of what you’re doing, you have no chance of winning
· imagination is more important than knowledge
· free your mind, your best ideas about work
  won’t happen while you’re at work
· the middle of every successful project looks
  like a disaster
· your tools are important (function follows form)

Tips

· stay relaxed (mind like water)
· clarify your commitments
· capture everything (into trusted system)
  and get it out ouf your mind
· describe successful outcome in a single sentence
· 5 stages of work:
    collect
    process
    organize
    review
    do
· clean up/review weekly
· review:
    actions
    projects
    areas of interest
    2yr goals
    5yr visions
    life
· celebrate any progess, don’t wait to get perfect
· brainstorm (the best way to get a great idea
  is to get lots of ideas)
· project phases
    survey
    planning
    implementation
    review
· date everything you handwrite
· create context lists (at computer, calls, ...)
· focus on ONE thing
· learn to say NO
· trust your intuition
· plan from bottom and elevate the focus
· always ask “why am I doing this?”

Tools

· project manager
· task list
· calendar
· communicator (phone email im)
· inbox
· archive
· maybe list
· pencil + paper