Quote

Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.

David Allen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Allen
Problems
Lives
Change
Problem
Improve
Even
Creates
Stress
Meant
Comfortable

More quotes by 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
It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.
David Allen
Image
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.
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
Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
David Allen
Image
Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
David Allen
Image
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.
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
There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
David Allen
Image
You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
David Allen
Image
Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
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
Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
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
Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.
David Allen
Image
You can do anything, not everything
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
There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs
David Allen
Image
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.
David Allen
Image
Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.
David Allen