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Your attention will continue to be grabbed by anything until you give it the appropriate attention. (David Allen (author))
Valuable thought occurred today to share. Obvious in the moment. Can't retrieve now. Didn't capture. I teach this. Damn.
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Good ideas are infinitely available. We've just limited our availablitly to them. The music's not in the radio.
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Your mind receives, remembers, & reminds, & sucks at all 3, compared to an objective external system a la GTD.
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Secret to finding, quickly, the corner pieces, then the outside edges, to the jigsaw puzzle of life: GTD.
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Over-prepare. Then go with the flow.
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Defaulting to ur psyche as ur system instead of an objective one makes maintaining the system too much trouble.
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Get things under control first, then get focused. If your ship is sinking, you don't care where it's pointed.
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Trying to ignore secondarily meaningful things gives them more meaning than they deserve.
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You talk to yourself 50,000 times a day. What's 300 emails? #SmallBizChat.
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If u can't see everything you've committed to, at all levels, you'll be driven by latest and loudest. #SmallBizChat. (David Allen (author))
A commitment kept only in your head will be given too much or too little attention.
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Resistance to deciding the next action (before we have to) stems from how it exposes the vulnerability of our intelligence.
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The nature of creative thinking runs counter to the nature of dealing w/its output. Ability & system to do both is freedom. GTD.
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Making decisions when you can vs. when you have to makes for better decisions.
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The less you are driven by what goes on in this material world, the more you will pay attention to its details.
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If you could stop thinking, letting go of trying control your world w/your mind, where would your attention go?
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#GTD 2.0 = what to do with your head, once it's clear.
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"Organization" for most people is simply an incomplete list, or amorphous piles, of still-unclear commitments.
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Point of in-box empty: having a complete, current inventory of what matters, so you deal clearly with what's new & what's now.
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How, and how often, you relate to your system is an essential part of your system. (David Allen (author))
Am working as hard as I can to find out what it's OK I'm NOT going to be dong, this weekend!
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An overwhelming amount of potential work to do is cool. Otherwise people would never go to a gym.
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If your backlog of stuff isn't zero'd regularly, you're hostage to your own incessant angst that you should.
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To be free to be spontaneously & creatively shallow requires depth of character & a disciplined focus.
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