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 … - David Allen

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.

Amira In training and coaching thousands of professionals, I have found that lack of time is not the major issue for them (though they themselves may think it is); the real problem is a lack of clarity and definition about what a project really is, and what the associated next-action steps required are. Clarifying things on the front end, when they first appear on the radar, rather than on the back end, after trouble has developed, allows people to reap the benefits of managing action.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. — Peter F.

Once you had generated a sufficient number of ideas and details, you couldn’t help but start to organize them. You may have thought or said, “First we need to find out if the restaurant is open,” or “Let’s call the Andersons and see if they’d like to go out with us.” Once you’ve generated various thoughts relevant to the outcome, your mind will automatically begin to sort them by components (subprojects), priorities, and/ or sequences of events.