Comments on: Books to Read at Christmas – Well, books that a productivity blogger would read

By: Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links - 28th December 2008 - DIGTD - Making You More Productive

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:10:47 +0000

[...] Christmas Eve, the post lady delivered me a nice surprise, my copy of the new David Allen Book, Making it all Work. I have already started reading it and will be reviewing it as I read it rather than at the end. I [...]

By: Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links - 21st December 2008 - DIGTD - Making You More Productive

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:36:01 +0000

[...] have just this minute received an email from Amazon stating that the David Allen Book, Making it all Work, has been delayed by the publishers and not due into the UK until the 15th of January 2009. Looks [...]

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:12:41 +0000

@rjleaman:
I have four young children so Christmas day is a blur consisting of building presents and putting batteries into everything that moves!

But, there is always Boxing Day

By: rjleaman

rjleaman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:20:49 +0000

War of Art That’s one of those “damn, I wish I’d thought of that first” titles!
Good review, and this sounds like a good book for the holidays — you know, where it’s the kind you can pick up & put down and think about while Uncle Edward’s droning on about everything that’s wrong with the younger generation and waving the gravy ladle in a dangerous manner…
But perhaps your holiday gatherings have fewer opportunities for the quiet contemplation of creativity?

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:28:16 +0000

@Stephan Miller:
I wish my wife was so techie that I could do that

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:27:47 +0000

@rjleaman: Yes, as soon as I read it I will review it. The other book on creativity that I likes was the War of Art, check out my review of it..

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:45:57 +0000

Just added Creative Habit to my Amazon wishlist, hopefully in time for my wife to see it.

By: rjleaman

rjleaman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:28:56 +0000

Twyla Tharp’s book sounds rather intriguing. As someone who has been known to go off on rants about would-be writers who sit about and wait for their muse to strike, the idea of creativity being a habit to develop and practice is an appealling one. Will you review the book when you’ve read it? I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on it – before I go shell out for a copy of my own!

By: Yardbird

Yardbird — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:46:22 +0000

I’m currently working through David Allen’s other book, Ready For Anything. So far I like it, although I’ve found it more high-level and theoretical than Getting Things Done (something that I liked about that book, mind you). I also have the ProBlogger book on my wishlist; hopefully I’ll get it and be ready to pick it up after the David Allen book is done.