It is an ideal state where your personal management situation is totally under control, at all levels and at all times. Achieving a ready state is accessible by everyone, and a skill increasingly needed to deal effectively with the complexity of the current world.

When you are in ready state you can pay full attention to whatever is at hand, with no distraction. Therefore, you get meaningful things done in a relaxed way, with minimal effort.

Also called mind like water in martial arts, being in the zone in other fields, flow by other authors, or simply productive state.