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David Allen (born December 28, 1945) is an American productivity consultant, best known for the creation of a time management method called "Getting Things Done".
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GTD supplies the reset button for all parts of life & work.
Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them.
The organizing system merely provides placeholders for all your oprn loops and options so your mind can... make the necessary intuitive, moment-to-moment strategic decisions.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)
Your attention will continue to be grabbed by anything until you give it the appropriate attention.
Making decisions requires energy, but not deciding about whether to decide requires even more energy.
To be free to be spontaneously & creatively shallow requires depth of character & a disciplined focus.
Your ability to deal w/surprise is in inverse relation to the amount of your backlog of "stuff".
Even the smallest knoll to climb, to see a little more than the machine guns firing at me, is salvation.
The greater your confidence w/how to achieve control & focus, as needed, the wilder & crazier you can be.
When "this isn't right" changes to "this isn't optimal" in your vocabulary, you've moved up the food chain.
How can you justify keeping a calendar & still keep most of your other commitments w/yourself in your head?
If your backlog of stuff isn't zero'd regularly, you're hostage to your own incessant angst that you should.
Great question to ask, to relax: What should I consider right now, decide what, and let go?
Does something have your attention because you want it to, or because you're avoiding it?
Defaulting to ur psyche as ur system instead of an objective one makes maintaining the system too much trouble.
Rivers of creative flow are log jammed w/ heads holding on to incompletions, old business, & avoided decisions.
The latest & loudest thing in your psyche is seldom the most important thing that should take up residence there.
Pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, so you can pay attention to what really has your attention.
Clearing the deck is great, but sailing adventurous waters is the real game. (Just can't do it w/out a clear deck.)
Hold still enough to grapple w/the simple questions, & the complexities become clear.
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