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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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Whether you know what you're doing or not, efficiency & style are your only improvement opportunities.
Outcome/next-action thinking, before you must, prepares you for when you must. And that time will come.
Engaging in complexity is a key to simplicity. Fear of it will haunt your inner recesses.
Every thought deserves its own place in the universe. How & where do you capture yours?
Your mind doesn't have one. If it did, it would only remind you of something when you could do something about it.
Freedom to give full attention to what you want (vs. It being held hostage by unmanaged stuff) is the GTD promise.
Living life in "emergency scan" mode self-perpetuates instead of self-corrects. Deal w/a non-emergency before it is one.
Organizing without first capturing & clarifying what needs organizing is simply rearranging your angst.
Cool how many layers of my mind there are to clear, each time I do it...& how different my world is then.
[Y]ou must have a clear picture in your mind of what success would look, sound, and feel like.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001)
My daily meta-map lists: events coming up; major projects for me; emerging interests; my accountabilities.
Am working as hard as I can to find out what it's OK I'm NOT going to be dong, this weekend!
Trying to ignore secondarily meaningful things gives them more meaning than they deserve.
Being in control isn't forceful manipulation but rather highly cooperative engagement w/ what's really going on.
When you "have to get organized," you're probably not appropriately invested yet in what you need to get organized for.
Resistance to deciding the next action (before we have to) stems from how it exposes the vulnerability of our intelligence.
It's hard to say no when you're not aware of everything you've said yes to.
The coolest things I do usually aren't on my lists, but because of them.
The nature of creative thinking runs counter to the nature of dealing w/its output. Ability & system to do both is freedom. GTD.
How much attention have I given what really deserves my attention today?
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