Quote

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

David Allen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Allen
Productivity
Fool
Everyone
Else
Mind

More quotes by David Allen

Image
Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.
David Allen
Image
There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
David Allen
Image
There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs
David Allen
Image
You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.
David Allen
Image
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.
David Allen
Image
A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.
David Allen
Image
'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'.
David Allen
Image
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.
David Allen
Image
Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
David Allen
Image
Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.
David Allen
Image
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.
David Allen
Image
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.
David Allen
Image
Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
David Allen
Image
People allow themselves to get distracted I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.
David Allen
Image
Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
David Allen
Image
You can do anything, not everything
David Allen
Image
There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.
David Allen
Image
Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.
David Allen
Image
Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.
David Allen
Image
Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
David Allen