David Allen Quotes About Productivity
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You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
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Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.
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When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.
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You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.
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You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.
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Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
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There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.
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Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.
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If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
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Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.
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A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity.
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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
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