![]() ![]() In the Organize stage, you'd handle the tasks that remain and decide whether they require your action. Then, you'd complete all the 2-minute tasks and delegate the tasks that you can outsource to someone else accordingly. In the Process stage, you'd audit that list by separating it into tasks you can outsource to someone else, tasks that don't need your attention right away, tasks that must get done now, and tasks that take 2 minutes or less to do. In the Collect stage, you'd list all of the things you're thinking about. It centers on a reliable workflow with five stages: collect, process, organize, review and do. The GTD methodology was first introduced in David Allen's book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. ![]() GTD is one of the most famous productivity systems in the corporate world, and has inspired several apps that enable users to put its principles into place. His Wikipedia page mentions Allen's claim that he had 35 professions before age 35, and like me, one of his many former jobs was in the restaurant business. David Allen is an author and productivity consultant who founded the Getting Things Done method of time management, commonly shortened to GTD. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (Summary by zaaf)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox. The Apology of Socrates by Plato, is the Socratic dialogue that presents the speech of legal self-defence, which Socrates presented at his trial for impiety and corruption, in 399 BC. ![]() ![]() It is the earliest and most eloquent expression of what has been termed 'philosophical faith', as that love and search for truth which gives meaning to life and trust in the face of death. The Apology is Plato's version of the speech delivered by Socrates before the Athenian people in his defence agaist charges of impiety and of misleading others, which ended in his condemnation and death in 399 BC. 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Drummond, the most emblematic Brazilian poet, was a master of transforming the ordinary world, through language, into the sublime. One of the most famous twentieth-century poets, Manuel Bandeira, was presented with a permanent parking space in front of his apartment house in Rio de Janeiro, with an enamelled sign POETA - although he never owned a car and didn't know how to drive." In a culture like this, it is difficult to underestimate the importance of the nation's greatest poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade. "Among men, the name of ‘poet' is sometimes used as a compliment or term of affection, even if the person referred to is. Brazil, according to no less an observer than Elizabeth Bishop, is a place where poets hold a place of honor. The most indispensable poems of Brazil's greatest poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hoover wrote her first novel at 31 and self-published it almost by chance, all because she wanted her mother to read the story on her e-reader. 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Affectionately known as CoHo, Colleen Hoover has taken the online book world by storm with tremendous success. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since their discovery 150 years ago, Neanderthals have gone from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. This book sheds new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered. ![]() "Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity."- The New York Times Book Review " bold and magnificent attempt to resurrect our Neanderthal kin."- The Wall Street Journal In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don't know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. ![]() ![]() But if she returns for him, will he still be hers?Ī Place Without You is an emotional story of young love, shattered dreams, and impossible decisions.ĭownload your copy today or read FREE in Kindle Unlimited! 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Detective Rita Myers who is in charge of the case seems to think one of the birthday guests has killed him. Jay has been brutally murdered and no one has any idea why. But the next morning, Jay’s wife Molly finds him dead on the floor of his office. ![]() Jay Bradley is a forty-year-old psychologist and one of the group’s favorites. On a cold, quiet night at the beginning of January, a group of close friends are gathered to celebrate one of them’s birthday. All the Dark Places by Terri Parlato – Book DetailsĪ huge thank you to RB Media and NetGalley for providing me with an audio ARC of All the Dark Places by Terri Parlato in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elka didn't believe her of course and went back home but when the coppers followed her and found the shack and some grisley things Kreagar had locked up in a box, Elka had to believe. 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