I was going to throw this book in the business books but I really believe that it is self help. Getting Things done is a great book about looking at all of the things in your life and rebuilding what is important and really having a process of living your life instead of a big to do list. David Allen is a bit of a cult phenomenon with his idea that your brain is a big computer and the more stuff you have to remember the more slowly you can work, David Allen looks at your mind like RAM in a computer and I just love that analogy.

Gettin things done is broken into a few sections. There is an outline section, and then chapters based on the idea of getting stuff together, creating buckets of information, finishing anything that will take 10 minutes or less, creating projects, getting control of your time….you get the picture

Anyway Getting Things Done is great in the way that it starts with the mess that is your lfe and slowly but very organizingly, David Allen starts pulling all of those ideas out of your head and before you know it your life has a great semblance of order.

This is a must read book for anyone having a lot of trouble getting those mundane things done as well as not being able to get the higher level projects finished that you have always been having trouble just getting started.

Lifehacker is one of my favorite sites. The idea behind lifehacker is that there is a lot of technology out there and their job is to bring you the tech, ideas, software and systems that will make your life more fulfilling and easier. Well, Gina Trapani, the soul of the Lifehacker has written a book with 88 ideas gleaned from the website. After looking through the tips I have found lots of things that are going to change my life and this book is now one of my favorites. After I ordered this book and received it I was able to burn through it in three days, even with kids I had trouble putting Lifehacker down.

Everytime that I mention this book to family and friends they say “so a bunch of keyboard shortcuts?” Well the keyboard shortcuts are in the book but there is also so much more. How about setting up a web server on your home computer so that you can easily get stuff from home? Or using Flickr to do notetaking and research for stuff you want to get? There are so many things in this book that help me that I am sure that I was in the stoneage of productivity last week before I read this book.

One of the other nice things about Lifehacker is that Gina dovetails some of the basics of “Getting Things Done” That is a great productivity book and therefore you have no problems getting more than just the tech part of your life in order.

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You on a Diet is a great book. I had a chance to check it out today and was fascinated by theway that it is laid out. The book is full of pull out tips outside of the regular text as well as a lot of drawings tables and stats to draw you away from just plain boring text. Here are some stats on the book.

For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting–and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.

Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America’s most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They’re going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body’s fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you’re going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.

Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In YOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-the skin tour of the organs that influence your body’s size and its health. You’ll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.

Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you’d think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. YOU: On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It’s a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. YOU: On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you’ll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.

With Roizen and Oz’s signature accessibility, wit, and humor, YOU: On a Diet–The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you’ll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet.

You on A Diet is quite big by diet book standards and it clocks in at 384 pages. One of the things that I really like is that You on A Diet is in fact written by a couple of doctors and is therefore very much based on fact instead of the usual fiction that we find in diet books. I am a real fan of You on A Diet and expect to see it under a lot of Christmas trees this year.

There are many ways that you can improve how well you play Texas Holdem and this article plus a few texas holdem ebooks may help

Texas Hold’em has become a very popular game. If you don’t know how to play, you are missing out on an enjoyable pastime as well as some great entertainment on television. Whether you want to play Texas Hold’em with your friends for money, or you want to understand what’s going on in a celebrity Texas Hold’em tournament, here’s how to play:

The ante: Each player antes money into the middle. This is the money you pay in order to tell the dealer you’d like to play this round.

The cards to each player: The dealer deals out two cards face down to each person. When you receive yours, check them out but don’t show them to anybody. If you are wondering what is a good hand to play, a good rule of thumb is this: if you got a hand that you’d be happy about in blackjack, then you’ve probably got a decent hand in Texas Holdem. That’s not a perfect rule, but it’s a good place to start. Another way people decide if it’s a good hand is if they get a pair or if they get a face card with a second card. Either of these hands, too, will make for a hand with some potential. After everyone has received their first two cards, there is a round of betting.

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The cards in the center: The dealer deals out five cards in the center: two cards face down and three cards face up. This is called the flop. Players look at the combination of cards in their hand and cards in the flop to decide if they can assemble a poker hand from it. There is a round of betting.

The turn: The dealer turns up the fourth card. This is called the turn. Again, players look at all the cards available to decide if there is the potential for a good hand. There is a round of betting.

The river: Finally, the dealer turns out the fifth card and now the players who are still in can choose from any of the seven cards in front of them (the 5 face-up and 2 face-down) to make the best hand of five. There is a final round of betting.

The call: Players reveal their cards and the winner takes the pot!

These rules are far from complete. However, you did learn enough to play a decent game with your friends or to give you a little more understanding of what goes on at the Texas Hold’em tournament on television.

Jeff Lakie is the founder of Poker Information a website providing information on Poker