You have read “Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress-Free Productivity“, right?

If you have, you’d want to get the newest book by David Allen… and if you haven’t grab both from Amazon now:

The new book is called: “Making it All Work - Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life“:

About the book (from the book’s web site):

David Allen’s Getting Things Done hit a nerve and ignited a movement with businesses, students, soccer moms, and techies all the way from Silicon Valley to Europe and Asia. Now, David Allen leads the world on a new path to achieve focus, control, and perspective. Throw out everything you know about productivity– Making It All Work will make life and work a game you can win. For those who have already experienced the clarity of mind from reading Getting Things Done, Making It All Work will take the process to the next level.

David Allen shows us how to excel in dealing with our daily commitments, the unexpected, and the information overload that threatens to drown us. Making It All Work provides an instantly usable, success-building tool kit for staying ahead of the game.

Making It All Work addresses: how to figure out where you are in life and what you need; how to be your own consultant and a CEO of your life; moving from hope to trust in decision-making; when not to set goals; harnessing intuition, spontaneity, and serendipity; and why life is like business and business is like life.

This eagerly awaited follow-up to Getting Things Done is guaranteed to find an audience in today’s competitive business environment and among David Allen’s many fans.

The book will be available on sale today - I’m getting my copy today!

I’m happy to announce that we’ve just released the first issue of the Productive Magazine!

33 Pages, 17 articles, 3 MB FREE PDF download that looks like this:

Before you download…. watch the video of me introducing you to the magazine (only 6 minutes):

To download, just click here!

What’s in the magazine:

• Interview with the David Allen himself - the best-selling author of the Getting Things Done book
• 17 great articles by the most active productivity bloggers in the blogoshpere, make sure to check these out!

Thanks to all the contributors and to everyone who helped me make this happen!

After you’ve downloaded the magazine, please do come back to this web site and post your comments to let me know what you think! Thanks!

- Michael Sliwinski (Editor)

P.S. Productive Magazine is sponsored by Nozbe - Simply Get Things Done tool that keeps you productive when you’re by the computer or with the mobile phone or the iPhone.

We’ve compiled the first issue of the magazine and now I’m going through the review phase.

Weekly Review

Speaking of reviews, anyone familiar to GTD (Getting Things Done) knows that the key to success in personal productivity is the weekly review.

It’s Sunday today and I’m at the moment conducting my weekly review. I need to be ready for this week, as this week we’re launching the first edition of the Productive Magazine (more on this tomorrow).

To emphasize the importance of a good and thorough weekly review, I’ve asked Maciek, our technical director to add one last (17th) article to the Productive Magazine, a great article by John Kendrick:

The Five W’s of a Weekly GTD Review

Since our magazine is in digital print, we can add an article at last minute and it won’t influence all that much our scheduling… so we did just that.

Good luck with your weekly reviews and wait for this week’s announcement of the Productive Magazine.

We’ve finished the first version of the Productive Magazine cover. Due to some issues we had to re-schedule the first edition of the magazine for September, but we’re right now finishing it and it should be out very soon.

As promised, we have an exclusive 4-page interview with David Allen and lot’s of great articles:

There are people who are just good. You meet them and you become instant friends. You know you can turn to them if you need anything and they will be there for you. You can chat with them for hours and feel like you’ve known them forever. They support you and motivate you to be a better person… and even if you’ve met them only once, you know you’ll never ever forget them.

Marc Orchant (1957-2007) was like this and I still miss him, so I decided to dedicate the Productive!Magazine to him. If he hadn’t died, he would have co-founded this project with me.

Productive!Magazine is dedicated to the memory of Marc Orchant.

I’d come to know Marc by reading one of his blogs. We shared the same passions: gadgetry and computers (both had Toshiba M200 TabletPCs) and Getting Things Done methodology.

When I launched Nozbe in February 2007 he wrote a great review of my new web app on his ZDnet blog “Office Evolution” and supported me as one of the first users (ID #101).

We kept in touch and when in Summer 2007 I was invited by Ismael Ghalmi to be a panelist/speaker at the Office2.0 Conference he encouraged me to go and we met there.

We had a great time and on the last day of the conference Marc and his wife Sue, along with their friend Oliver Starr invited me and my wife for a dinner at their favorite San Francisco restaurant: “House of Nanking”.

This is a photo I took of Marc and his wife Sue when we were all waiting in line for the restaurant:

We promised to stay in touch and see each other again but he suddenly died of heart attack on 9th December the same year. Read Oliver Starr’s “In Memorium”

Marc was a great blogger, he wrote for:

• Platform Agnostic (his personal blog)
• Office Zealot - Marc’s Outlook on Productivity
• On the Run with TabletPC podcast with James Kendrick
• The TabletPC Web blog
• Office Evolution at ZDnet
• Blognation USA

You can still check out his Twitter channel

He left his lovely wife Sue and his two children: Rebecca and Jason. If you knew Marc, please consider donating to help his family (Oliver Starr handles the donations)