The Power to Get Things Done

(Whether You Feel Like It or Not)

By: Steve Levinson Ph.D., Chris Cooper

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Turn your good intentions into action.

"This book contains a ton of practical and easy-to-implement techniques and strategies for getting yourself to do whatever needs to be done." --Jack Canfield, coauthor of The Success Principles and the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

Whether you run your own business or work for someone else, you’ve probably got a lot on your plate. Along with the portion of your work that you truly feel like doing comes a generous helping of things you’d rather not do.

As consultants, Steve Levinson and Chris Cooper have seen countless clients struggle—and often fail—to do the many success-producing things they know they should do but don’t feel like doing.

The Power to Get Things Done will teach you how to consistently turn your good intentions into action so that you can be as successful as possible in the work you do.

Don't feel like filing those pesky tax forms or making the follow-up calls you've been putting off? The Power to Get Things Done will show you how to get yourself--and keep yourself--in gear.

Levinson and Cooper offer you a host of practical solutions, including:


• the smart way to think about and treat your own good intentions
• three key principles of following through that will change everything
• simple but powerful principles and strategies that will turn you into a follow-through champion.

Critic reviews

"This book contains a ton of practical and easy-to-implement techniques and strategies for getting yourself to do whatever needs to be done." --Jack Canfield, coauthor of The Success Principles and the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

life changing content if you want to follow throug

great book! This book isn't magical it's simply points out the simple yet growling tasks we do or don't do to hurt and or help our selves.

Excellent Book by all standards

This book is simply amazing for following through one's intentions. It contains practical skills with numerous examples to help everyone to overcome that familiar feeling of "I don't want to do it".

learn to be more proactive.

small steps equal one large step in the end. take the time to make yourself better!

Clever in many ways

Narrator made the book. Changed the way I'll think about my never-ending task list. Much of the book seemed obvious but the some of the suggestions people use to motivate themselves gave me a different angle on how I'll approach the things I don't want to do.

Get Atomic Habits instead

While this is an adequate book about following through, there are better options out there, most notably, Atomic Habits.

Towards the beginning of the book, the authors, give the reader the option to skip ahead to future chapters, which, if you decide to buy this book, you should definitely do. The first half of the book is basically describing why you need this book. The second half has some random tips about falling through, but once again, Atomic Habits is far superior, and this book doesn't add anything beyond what is in Atomic Habits. If you've already read Atomic Habits and are looking for another similar book, this is an OK read, but you would probably be better off just rereading Atomic Habits.