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You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

David Allen

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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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The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.
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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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Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
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A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.
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Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.
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'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.
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Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.
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The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.
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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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Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
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Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
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Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
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There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!
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My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
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Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.
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First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.
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Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.
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