Download PDF The Productivity Project Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time Attention and Energy Chris Bailey 9781101904053 Books

Product details Paperback 304 pages Publisher Currency; Reprint edition (August 29, 2017) Language English ISBN-10 1101904054

The Productivity Project Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time Attention and Energy Chris Bailey 9781101904053 Books Reviews

• I'm not one to review many purchases on . However, I think I owe it to the author to leave a positive review due the huge positive impact this book had on me. As a brief synopsis, Chris Bailey argues that we need to look beyond just time management, and instead to evaluate how we manage our energy and attention as well. He offers the reader multiple tips on how to be more effective with our management our time, energy, and attention with the techniques that he found most useful in his "year of productivity" - a year of self experimentation in the realm of productivity.
  
  I read it in between semesters during an accelerated nursing program because I felt like I had no time, and that I was unable to pursue vital things outside of school like relationships and even exercise. This current semester, post reading, has been night and day compared to the last, as I have been more effective with the use of my time. I feel less cluttered mentally and I am able to focus better on my current tasks.
  
  There are no gimmicks and "shortcuts" offered in this book (although some of the techniques are easy to apply and have immediate results). Overall, his book is more about big picture ideas, but these ideas are the ones that will have an actual lasting impact on productivity. Lastly, while this book may seem tailored to the professional or student, I would recommend it to anyone, as the techniques that he provides to make you more productive can also make you happier.
• This book has tremendously changed the way i approach my work. I used to procrastinate a lot more than I do now. The book gives you the answers to why you procrastinate and how to fix it. The techniques are simple and effective and the book is written in a fun and engaging way, sometimes akin to a blog. What really sets this book apart are the examples of his personal experiments, which really adds to the credibility of the author.
  
  The only downside is that I felt that there are more things that could be said on certain topics, for example sleep and diet, but that's nothing some extra research on your part can't fix.
  
  The exercises at the end of every chapter are pretty easy and straightforward, although at times a bit tedious, will all allow you to up your productivity and understand a little bit more about yourself in the process. Not all of them will work for you, but if you make the effort to try them out and consequently integrate into your lifestyle the ones that work really well, your procrastination will subside and your productivity will skyrocket.
• Pros - There are some solid, actionable tips in here.
  - The author was pretty extensive in his experimentation with all of the productivity tips that are out there.
  
  Cons - The credibility of the author is that he was productive at...reading and writing about productivity. It's very circular logic. The book is about productivity, but I'm not sure what the author PRODUCED other than this book and blogs about productivity.
  - The writing is sub par. It reads like a blog.
  - Most of the tips I liked I had already learned from Deep Work by Cal Newport, which motivated them much better.
• This is the second book I've read about productivity since I started using Todoist, the tasks management program. Bailey's book gave me a few really useful strategies and goals for improving my task management strategy. As a result reading this book, I've moved about a dozen of my maintenance tasks over to Monday mornings, which is my least productive day of the week. I am also going to experiment with not drinking coffee for 30 days and see how it affects my daily energy level.
  
  This book would be very useful as the a college course, because just reading it without following through on some of the suggestions will not make it very useful.
  
  I definitely suggest highlighting the book and trying out many of the recommendations he suggests at the end of each chapter. I also recommend keeping a reflective journal about your productivity, and write about what's working and not working with your task management strategy. This book provides lots of different ways to think about your strategy, as well as experiments you could try to improve your productivity.
• Heard about this book on one of Tai Lopez's videos, and it is put together very well. You can read this book start to finish, or skim through (as I did) to find what is applicable to you. Even better, each section has a "Estimated Read Time" at the beginning so that you can gauge how long the chapter will take you, or if you only have a few minutes, you can skip to a chapter that matches your time.
  
  For me, the biggest take aways were the Rule of 3 (in which you organize your life to have 3 things on your To-Do list), brain dumping (where you right down all the thoughts that you have at that moment and reference later), and the Collection Box (which is similar to the Brain Dump, except you jot thoughts as they come to you while you're working on a task). I use the "Collection Box" at work to focus more, and I find that it has helped bit by bit in exercising my attention muscle. I also made a note to turn off all notifications during work, so that I don't get distracted by the buzzing and pings on the lock screen.
  
  I've only been practicing the techniques for a couple of weeks, so interested to see how this turns out over the year!
• Keeps telling me, more on that subject on such and such page. Keeps mentioning this yearlong project but never gets around to talking bout it. 50 pages in I quit it's so awful, waste of time
• too much blah blah. I don't really care much about some guy's process of reaching these results I just want to know the advice.
• The book was written as though productivity itself was a school project. Some good methods but overall impractical for what I was looking for.