David Allen Quotes

Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. — Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Defining “thinking” in its broadest sense to include any kind of focus and imagery held in the mind, in addition to the cognitive process of logic and rational judgment, means that your feelings will typically be more driven by the thoughts you hold than the other way around.

First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.

Perfection is graciously dealing with imperfection.

The latest & loudest thing in your psyche is seldom the most important thing that should take up residence there.

Great news about lots of email is how consistently it forces you to get clear what's really meaningful to your work/life.

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

The big problem is that your mind keeps
reminding you of things when you can't do
anything about them. It has no sense of past or future. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do something, and store it in your RAM, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time.

It takes a healthy sense of self to feel OK with nothing happening in your head.

Every thought deserves its own place in the universe. How & where do you capture yours?

The trick is to ensure not so much that what you are doing is, for you, the right thing, all the time (how, ultimately, could you know that for sure?) but that you are firmly in the driver’s seat with a functioning process for discovering and engaging with your best choice.

You'll be motivated to exercise the #GTD method to the degree you really care about what you're doing.

Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is,

sort of planning activity: (1) those that still have your attention even after you’ve determined their next actions, and (2) those about which potentially

the real problem is a lack of clarity and definition about what a project really is,