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

David Allen

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The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
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Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.
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If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.
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It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.
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My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
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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.
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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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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.
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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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.
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Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.
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Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
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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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Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes
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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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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 can do anything, not everything
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