Best Productivity Books 2019

If you followed David Allen’s GTD methodology, you will find Linenberger’s approach as a great addition to managing your daily task. I like Linenberger’s strategies as he came up with transparent, realistic and meaningful ideas for productivity.

Linenberger explains how work is largely a mental game that you can win by applying a practical new mental model of work called the Workday Now.

“Living with purpose and passion is critical to success in life. Master Your Workday Now! offers a clear, simple, and amazingly effective system for freeing up your workday and connecting your daily activities to your bigger goals and purpose, so you can live a passionate life.”
Janet Attwood, New York Times best-selling coauthor of The Passion Test

In Getting Results the Agile Way, author J.D. Meier introduces Agile Results®-a simple system for meaningful results!

One of the key takeaway concepts from the book is “It’s outcomes, not activities” – focus on your intended goal.

When you don’t know that the outcome or goal is, it’s easy throw hours and spend time and yet not actually producing any meaningful results. On the other hand, if you get clear on the outcome, you can find short-cuts.

Using outcome is a simple way to “slow down to speed up.”

Imagine if your best just got better every single day.

This book is a must read for everyone who wants to be better at what they are doing. Just when you think that you’re at your best at what you’re doing, there is always something else you could do to move up a step.

In this book, Jason shares a lot of practical ideas, concepts and actionable steps that will make your life better.

Do you often find yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? Are you frequently busy but not productive?

If you feels like your life is spiralling out of control and you’re always busy all the time, this is a good book that encourage readers to focus on what’s truly matters and ignore the rest.

Essentialism is not one more thing — it’s a whole new way of doing everything. You need to work effectively. It’s not about getting more done in less time, it’s about getting only the right things done.

This book is a quick and easy read that will have a huge impact on your daily routine and productivity in overall.

In this book Brian shares 21 steps to getting things done. You would have to choose what works for you. My top two takeaways from the books are 80/20 rule and single-handle every task.

This book provides many proven ideas to make you more productive which are the results of the Bailey’s one year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen.

While this is a very good book, some of stuff mentioned in the book are nothing really new. If you’ve read blogs and books about productivity, chances are you’ve heard all of this before.

Just because you feel productive doesn’t mean you are–and the opposite is often true.

YOU WANT LESS. You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work and family are taking a toll. And what’s the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller paychecks, fewer promotions–and lots of stress.

AND YOU WANT MORE. You want more productivity from your work. More income for a better lifestyle. You want more satisfaction from life, and more time for yourself, your family, and your friends.

NOW YOU CAN HAVE BOTH – LESS AND MORE. In The ONE Thing, you’ll learn to cut through the clutter, achieve better results in less time, build momentum toward your goal, dial down the stress, overcome that overwhelmed feeling, revive your energy, stay on track, master what matters to you The ONE Thing delivers extraordinary results in every area of your life – work, personal, family, and spiritual.

WHAT’S YOUR ONE THING?

Zen To Done takes the best aspects of a few popular productivity systems (Getting Things Done, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and others) and combines them with the mandate of simplicity. It makes things as simple as possible, and no more.

Zen To Done is a simple system to get you more organized and productive, and keep your life saner and less stressed, with a set of habits. ZTD teaches you the key habits needed to be productive, organized, and simplified, how to implement these key habits, how to organize this habits into a simple system that will keep everything in your life in its place.

We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day.

We’re wired up, but we’re melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution.

The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job. This book provides a life-changing road map to becoming more fully engaged on and off the job, meaning physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned.

In The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize–winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed.

At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.

Duhigg shows that we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives by harnessing this new science.

The cover of this book reminds me of my childhood dream – to be a superhero, superman, superhuman.

Our willpower is limited, yet we rely on it every day to get our tasks done. Even if we build willpower slowly over time, it’s never enough to reach all of our goals. The solution lies in habit creation, the method by which we transform hard tasks into easy ones, making them automatic and independent of our will power. Without a deliberate system for building habits, we become our own worst enemy.

Do you ever look at the clock and wonder where the day went? You spent all this time at work and didn’t come close to getting everything done?

You could use the Pomodoro Technique to work in focused sprints throughout the day. In Pomodoro Technique Illustrated, Staffan Noteberg shows you how to organize your work to accomplish more in less time. You can get started with nothing more than a piece of paper, a pencil, and a kitchen timer.

The Pomodoro Technique puts you back in charge of your day. You’ll apply successful techniques from software engineering to identify what you should be doing today and to help you achieve your goals. Your mind won’t wander when it is fully engaged in short bursts of focused activity.

Have you ever been in a dilemma feeling like you can’t accomplish anything with all these endless distractions that keeps coming at you?

The Power of Less demonstrates how to streamline your life by identifying the essential and eliminating the unnecessary, freeing you from everyday clutter and allowing you to focus on accomplishing the goals that can change your life for the better.

Learning to set limitations, such as penning a three-item Most Important Task list every day and restricting e-mails to five lines, is a cornerstone for the authors plan for increased simplicity and satisfaction. By setting limits for yourself and making the most of the resources you already have, you’ll finally be able work less, work smarter, and focus on living the life that you deserve.