How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life

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Ask yourself constantly "What is the most important thing I could be doing right now?" and act on it. Forget GTD and read "How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life", by Alan Lakein.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who started his new autobiography, My Life, with a reference to the book: When I was a young man just out of law school and eager to get on with my life, on a whim I briefly put aside my reading preference for fiction and history and bought one of those how-to books: How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, by Alan Lakein. The book’s main point was the necessity of listing short-, medium-, and long-term life goals, then categorizing them in order of their importance, with the A group being the most important, the B group next, and the C the last, then listing under each goal specific activities designed to achieve them. I still have that paperback book, now almost thirty years old. And I’m sure I have that old list somewhere buried in my papers, though I can’t find it. However, I do remember the A…