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By: Scott H Young » Friday Links 07-12-06

Scott H Young » Friday Links 07-12-06 — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:01:14 +0000

[...] To Done – Just in case you haven’t had a chance to take a look at this great book, here’s the link again. Leo Babauta of ZenHabits expands on the productivity framework of [...]

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:36:22 +0000

Albert,

Do a search for my website for “The Art of the Finish”. It was a very popular guest-post from Cal Newport, that tackles exactly that question.

Too be honest, I might have been a bit to harsh on Leo. His book does more in the way of accomplishment vs. organization than GTD. And the advice he gives is still great.

-Scott

By: Albert

Albert — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:13:34 +0000

Hi Scott. I’ve been reading your blog lately ever since that article about how to easily memorize something, and I had asked you a question about log.

You say this book puts organization in front of accomplishments. What I need is to accomplish. I’m one of those people that does a ton of things and is “ok” in all of them, but I’m not good at anything because I haven’t really accomplished much. I play guitar, piano, run a blog that makes money, badminton school team, skipped a grade in math. To be honest, that probably seems amazing to more than 85% of my school population but the truth is I’m only ok in all these areas and not necessarily good.

One of my drawbacks is speed. For some reason, my speed has declined over the years in terms of accomplishing tasks, studying, acting, etc. I need a book that talks about accomplishment and will appreciate if you can recommend me some. I’m on page 30 something of GTD and I find it really boring. I don’t really think I need to be “THAT” organized but I could be wrong – perhaps thats my fault.

Sorry for reading through all that but your articles are great. I’ve subscribed to your feed.

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This Week’s Links to Check Out | Be Healthy and Relax — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:42:50 +0000

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» Book Review: Zen to Done — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:48:53 +0000

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By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:36:16 +0000

Thanks for that Neils.

By: Niels

Niels — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:33:06 +0000

Typo–>”that kep your desk and e-mail”

By: Iair

Iair — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:54:21 +0000

I think I’ll buy it. I feel that all the advice I read in your blogs just sums well selected information to my head so I can make decisions basing them on experts in the subject. So, less than $10, it’s a wonderful price to pay for such that kind of information. I also bought & read “How to change a habit” and it helped me a lot. Made me believe that i am able to change also what i think it’s impossible. Thanks to both of you.