David Allen (author) quotes - page 5

It takes a healthy sense of self to feel OK with nothing happening in your head. (David Allen (author))
How can you justify keeping a calendar & still keep most of your other commitments w/yourself in your head? View quote
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Your mind doesn't have one. If it did, it would only remind you of something when you could do something about it. View quote
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Pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, so you can pay attention to what really has your attention. View quote
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Outcome/next-action thinking, before you must, prepares you for when you must. And that time will come. View quote
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Your tools are only as good as they serve your intention. What do you want to have true? What Do you need to have viewable re: that? View quote
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When you know how, any time, to get to the place where it's all sort of funny, you've mastered GTD. View quote
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Freedom to give full attention to what you want (vs. It being held hostage by unmanaged stuff) is the GTD promise. View quote
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Rivers of creative flow are log jammed w/ heads holding on to incompletions, old business, & avoided decisions. View quote
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Keys to getting things done: know what "done" means & what "doing" looks like. View quote
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The greater your confidence w/how to achieve control & focus, as needed, the wilder & crazier you can be. (David Allen (author))
Collect, process, organize & review what has your attention, so you can stop half-trying to be doing all that, constantly. View quote
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My daily meta-map lists: events coming up; major projects for me; emerging interests; my accountabilities. View quote
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The purpose of a purpose? Tunes you to meaningful things you wouldn't be aware of, otherwise. View quote
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Staying in control daily, weekly, & yearly requires different things for each. Handling one doesn't handle the others. View quote
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What would your ideal exec ass't let you know - & when - & where? That should inform your best #GTD system. View quote
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Great question to ask, to relax: What should I consider right now, decide what, and let go? View quote
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Using your head to manage your life = creativity constipation. View quote
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The present-ness demanded by a crisis is possible w/out crisis. Understand the keys to appropriate engagement. GTD. View quote
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The short-term-memory part of your mind-the part that tends to hold all of the incomplete, undecided, and unorganized "stuff”-functions much like RAM on a personal computer. Your conscious mind, like the computer screen, is a focusing tool, not a storage place. You can think about only two or three things at once. But the incomplete items are still being stored in the short-term-memory space. And as with RAM, there's limited capacity; there's only so much "stuff” you can store in there and still have that part of your brain function at a high level. Most people walk around with their RAM bursting at the seams. They're constantly distracted, their focus disturbed by their own internal mental overload. View quote
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How much of this planning model do you really need..? [A]s much as you need to get the project off your mind. (David Allen (author))