GRIP: The Art of Working Smart (and getting to what matters most)-Rick Pastoor

Book: GRIP: The Art of Working Smart (and getting to what matters most)
Author: Rick Pastoor
Translators: Elizabeth Manton & Erica Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins India

Do you struggle with organizing your life and tasks?

GRIP: The Art of Working Smart (and getting to what matters most) by Rick Pastoor is a fresh, no-nonsense guide brings clarity and direction to even the most hectic workweek. Using tools you know – like your calendar, to-do list, and email – GRIP walks you through working smarter, thinking bigger, and clearing the way for what matters most. And GRIP’s pick-and-choose structure makes it easy to dive in and start applying what you like straightaway.

Translated from the Dutch Original, the book is an interesting guide into organizing your life through specific tools and advice that are easy to implement. The book is divided into 3 major parts and each of them starts small and goes on to help you organize your week, year and life. Rick condenses his experience and his learnings from his readings and comes up with a set of helpful advice that is not just your usual self-help served on a platter, but rather a set of tools that help you understand your own life and create a plan that suits your own self. Rick enumerates a set of online and offline tools that can be of great help when you have to manage work and personal life, especially in this time when activities have become fluid and we are looking at multiple work options. 

The book is written in simple language and it focuses on the content rather than the flowery language. The pace of the book is quite interesting and it reads like a fiction novel, rather than a non-fiction self help book. The way the book has been structured is quite helpful and since there are specific sections of the book to deal with weekly life, a year and also restructure your life. Rick’s suggestions for digital tools are good and having tried a few of them, I was quite amazed. Rick has also given some templates to be used which help the reader convert the message into actionable advice.

Overall, I would definitely recommend the book to anyone looking to enact real change in their lives and organize it better to be effective. The book scores a 4.94/5 for me.

A copy of the book was provided to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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