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Maybe it's better to do your reading at another place, where you can do it fully comfortable and let your wife watch TV comfortably as well. When you are not doing something together and you don't pay attention to each other, you would only restrict (limit) each other. Then you could be bad-tempered because of bad reading condition or your wife could be ...

43 folders - Getting started with Getting Things Done outlines: identify all the stuff in your life that isn’t in the right place (close all open loops) get rid of the stuff that isn’t yours or you don’t need right now create a right place that you trust and that supports your working style and values put your stuff in the right place, ...

There is no any secret. Look, our life will be over some day. I think, we must live. Not just exist, but live. If you have a dream, if you do want something, you'll "burn". You will work to realize your dream. And doing this, you'll be happy. You'll find yourself. But if you get up every morning, have a breakfast, go to work/school/institute, have a lunch, ...

I recommend these two first: Allen, David: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity. Covey, Stephen: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Then there are a lot of others that may have something useful to offer, but if you're looking for "really really must read" these are what to start with.

how about headphones with white noise? Bit of a google found http://cantonbecker.com/music/white-noise-sleep-sounds/mp3s.php, which appears to supply mp3s... EDIT - I've also just wandered accross this: http://simplynoise.com/, which is entirely devoted to white noise...

A teacher of a productivity workshop once taught me that listening to classical music with approximately 60 beats per minute will calm you down, improve your focus and make you more creative all at the same time. I've experimented with it myself at work (I am a programmer) and it certainly does help me focus. If you use headphones, you can also use it for ...

It's up to what I expect from that book. If I read it because I want to know how to do something I never know it before, I will read and try to code all along (and also do some exercise). That give me some taste of that thing. If I read it because I want to know some concepts behind something, often when I try to learn something new, I will focus on why ...

I used Think and Grow Rich to reach my goals. And then I forgot about it. Napolean Hill's main theme, in my humble opinion, is holding one dominant thought, in your mind, until it comes true in reality. Dominant thought plus your belief in it will make your dominant thought come true. I used it to get to university when I was younger. I was told that I was ...

Disclaimer - I'm writing this from the point of view of someone who can already program, if you were learning your first programming language the answer would be very different. I avoid doing the exercises because I believe that the structure of programming books hasn't really updated to reflect the rise of the internet (oh they put their source code ...

You don't need to read the book to know what GTD is or even how to use it. You want to read the whole book because it explains why GTD is and provides examples and repetitions to link GTD issues and solutions to your real life - making it more sticky. Just make sure to read the first - original - GTD book. That's what contains sweat, blood and tears. The ...

There is a great book that describes that problem (and many others) - it's called "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor your wetware" by Andy Hunt, author of Pragmatic Programmer (another great book!). He writes in a general manner but his book is addressed to software developers. Basically Andy proposes a process of deliberate reading as a way of ...

Before reading the book, I watched David Allen's YouTube presentation which immediately gave me plenty of new ideas to improve my previous systems. After a couple weeks of changing and creating new systems, I was ready for more new ideas, so I read the book. Now I'm ready for more new ideas again, and here productivity.SE is blossoming with ideas. ...

Your question can be answered in two different ways: The reality you see, is the only thing you believe in: He speaks about to have an Idea and form a plan to support this Idea in your daily actions. So that you can get closer. You have to learn to evaluate every single thought, if it is supporting this one Idea. Do not get distracted. There is a reality ...

Spd Rdng - The Speed Reading Bible Haven't read it, but have good reviews: Turned a book hater into a book worm Great speed reading techniques These are Life Changing Skills

First of all I would recommend listening to books that are unrelated to your main line of work. This is a great way to expand your horizons, and to keep your mind off work while you are driving. This might actually enhance your creativity and problem-solving abilities when you do get to work. In short, don't take it so seriously. Listen for pleasure. ...

The Power of Full Engagement is right up there with GTD for me, it's a book that's completely changed how I see my workflow, especially dealing with purpose, energy and breaks. It goes along nicely with The Pomodoro Technique as the latter is a method to the motivation behind the former.

Two more possibilities: Turn off the TV sound and enable subtitles for her, if supported in your region. Market it by how it improves spelling and keeps you in the same room :) Consider audiobook versions of your books, the abridged versions if available. I typically listen to audiobooks (and TV recordings) at double-speed too to cater for the speed ...

All great answers here - just want to add my own. Always read the review of the book from Amazon or somewhere else BEFORE starting reading the book. People generally recommend certain sections of the book, other better books etc. If there is a better book out there, then why study this particular one.

I find that breaking my reading down into small goals - say 5 pages at a time helps me focus on getting the reading done when there is noise all around me. Short goals like that allow me to accept that it's going to be almost impossible to focus for a long long time like I'd like to. After 5 pages (or however many) I take a little break - regroup - talk if ...

You don't. But, if you are reading a programming book, you should ONLY do the exercises and read the material afterwards. You should use Google & documentation to build what you want to build in tools of your own choosing. Books won't teach you much: building real applications will. When you build real applications - you learn how to FIND information ...

Learning a programming language is similar to learning any language - you can't learn well from reading a dictionary or textbook on grammar. You learn by doing it. The brain is a pattern recognition machine, not simple data storage like a computer. It's difficult to learn it without applying it somewhere.

I am always trying to extend examples from the book; imagine you just got a huge box with a construction set; will you read the manual until you are asleep or will you try to build something right away? I consider this to be the one of the best things about programming - even after 25+ years of development I am still enjoying doing it ;)

There are two ways to think about this, and helpfully they reduce to the same thing. If your happy to trust that the author has a secret then you also have to trust the author's position that 'the only way to properly digest the secret is to discover it for yourself', and thus just asking for it defeats the purpose... On the other hand, if you don't ...

I found these podcasts to be a good introduction to GTD: http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=253 http://www.davidco.com/individuals/podcasts Always productive to learn something from a podcast on the way to work, time that would be wasted otherwise.