How should the book be organized? My goals:
- Casual browsers should be able to pick up and find something useful.
- Keep people reading.
- Be intriguing enough that Ellen, Oprah, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Larry King, the Today Show, etc. are fighting over who gets to interview me first.
Organize by bio
Come meet Stever. My background is a tad unusual (grew up in a traveling New Age commune). Organize the tips around my personal bio, similar to Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi. People love people stories…
Organize by tip: 101 tips
Chapter 1: Tips about organizing your office
Chapter 2: Tips about housecleaning
Chapter 3: Tips about handling mail
Organize by tool
Chapter 1: Here are the 10 Magic Productivity tools
Chapter 2: Tool #1 in depth, Tying the Goal to Daily Action, applied to work, home, etc.
Chapter 3: Tool #2 in depth, The 80/20 principle applied …
Organize by problem (framed as “eliminate problems”)
Chapter 1: Here are the 10 Magic Productivity tools
Chapter 2: Handling overload using tools #1, #5, and #9.
Chapter 3: Don’t be forgotten at a party, using tools #3, #7, #10
Organize by solution (framed as “create solutions”)
Chapter 1: Here are the 10 Magic Productivity tools
Chapter 2: Staying on top of all your work, using tools #1, #5, and #9.
Chapter 3: Be the most memorable person at the party, using tools #3, #7, #10
Organize by story (kind of Chicken Soup for the Get-it-Done Soul)
Chapter 1: Sue the Lawyer with no time
Chapter 2: Jim the Nurse who couldn’t say No
Chapter 3: Eloise the porpoise trainer who made the same mistakes over and over