If you’re like me, you want to be a Highly Effective Person with 7 (or 8 ) great Habits. You also want to be a master of Getting Things Done. However, you, like me, don’t really jive with the whole system. Every duck in a row leaves no room to just go with the flow, and in some cases I’m not even sure where the flock is to begin with. Put simply, GTD and 7-Habits is too specific for me in some places, and too vague in others.

Now read this: Zen to Done. Zen to Done takes bits and pieces from David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” and Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” and merges them into 10 guiding principles that you can pick and choose a la carte, these are the high-level habits. It then offers specific advice and examples on how to implement these habits. When I read GTD, I did not like having to slog through anecdote after anecdote, and with Zen to Done, you don’t have to. The book is structured so that you can just get the habits down, or just the specifics, or you can read the whole thing. Plus, it’s an e-book, so it’s dirt cheap and you can read it… now!

While you’re there, you might as well check out the Zen Habits Blog. Lots of great stuff on there too.