David Allen Quotes

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

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

Before you can achieve... you'll need to get in the habit of keeping nothing on your mind... not by managing time, managing information, or managing priorities. ...Instead, the key ...is managing your actions. ...[T]he real problem is a lack of clarity and definition about what a project really is, and what the associated next-action steps required are.

Rule your mind or it will rule you. — Horace

Things hold your attention hostage until you give them the appropriate attention.

Many of us hold ourselves back from imagining a desired outcome unless someone can show us how to get there. Unfortunately, that’s backward in terms of how our minds work to generate and recognize solutions and methods.

How can you justify keeping a calendar & still keep most of your other commitments w/yourself in your head?

Secret to finding, quickly, the corner pieces, then the outside edges, to the jigsaw puzzle of life: GTD

Does something have your attention because you want it to, or because you're avoiding it?

the focus we hold in our minds affects what we perceive and how we perform.

most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Am working as hard as I can to find out what it's OK I'm NOT going to be dong, this weekend!

In order to... have nothing on your mind, you've got to know where all your actionable items are located, what they are, and that they will wait. ...[I]n a few seconds, not days.

Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.

We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves. — EUGENE O’NEILL