David Allen Quotes

If u magically had 0 emails, in 10 days you'd be back to what you had. Issue is not volume, but tolerance of backlog.

It's hard to say no when you're not aware of everything you've said yes to.

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

Hold still enough to grapple w/the simple questions, & the complexities become clear.

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

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

To be free to be spontaneously & creatively shallow requires depth of character & a disciplined focus.

If you're already in a mess, you're not free to make one.

Productivity requires expansiveness & spontaneity as much as structure & control.

If your backlog of stuff isn't zero'd regularly, you're hostage to your own incessant angst that you should.

You've really done your job when what's true? (Challenging question for all of us!)

An overwhelming amount of potential work to do is cool. Otherwise people would never go to a gym.

Only issues in life: u know what u want, but not how to get it; or u don't know what u want. Solution: #GTD

Cool how many layers of my mind there are to clear, each time I do it...& how different my world is then.

When "this isn't right" changes to "this isn't optimal" in your vocabulary, you've moved up the food chain.