Get Organized!: Read a Good Book Lately?

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Read a Good Book Lately?

A dear friend and regular reader of this blog left a comment on this post.

At first glance, I thought this was your list written on your pocket size notebook. I enlarged it up to see what you were planning to read.

Well, this was actually not my list of books to read, but I do have one. In my BlackBerry is a task literally entitled "Books to Read." In its note section is my list. The task has a due date, which ensures that list will be in front of my face at a designated future time, so there is no possibility of the whole thing slipping through the cracks. The BlackBerry's ability to search the task list means that if I am near the library and want to drop in, I know exactly what to look for.

Here is what is on that list right now:

PresentationZEN (Garr Reynolds)
Slide:ology: the Art and Science of creating great presentations
Flipping the Switch...: Unleash the Power of Personal Accountability Using the QBQ!
168 Hour
Music, My Love (Rampal)
Arts With the Brain in Mind (Jenson)
Chicken Soup for the Soul in the Classroom
Enough: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Abundance
Executive Coaching for Results (Underhill)
New Leaders 100 Day Action Plan
The Answer to How is Yes
Making Time to Think (Bing)
Everything I Need to Know Learned from a Children’s Book
Psycho Cybernetics
Tyranny of the Urgent
Sizzle Substance (Eric Jensen)
One Minute Entrepreneur
Thinking Course (DeBono)
Wisdom of Crowds
The Great Gatsby

Anybody read one of them lately and care to share your thoughts?

Comments from Workshops

This morning when I returned to the office I did my first ever drag and drop to my calendar on Outlook - wahoo! The tickler file will come next week!

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Practical, down-to-earth user-friendly content. Excellent!

Dr. Buck did a great job. I learned LOTS of things about Outlook that I did not know.

Where have you been all my life? This is a great idea! Thank you so very much.

FANTASTIC! One of the best I’ve been to! I could have stayed longer.

I was in your organization session yesterday. It was excellent. Came back to work today and set up my tickler file! I also moved all my messy (and vague) to-do lists into my iCal program and synced it to my Blackberry. Progress!!! Thanks for a very clear and applicable session. I'm excited to keep making the ideas come to life for me!!

Awesome ideas to get my life on track. Thank you so much!

You changed my life!

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