Quote

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.

David Allen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Allen
Complete
Current
Keys
Currents
Projects
Basis
Reviewed
Masters
Bases
Weekly
Least
Defined
Accurately
Free
Stress
Productivity
Kept
List
Master
Lists

More quotes by David Allen

Image
Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
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
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
Some people have to move, physically, to get something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.
David Allen
Image
The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
David Allen
Image
There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs
David Allen
Image
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
David Allen
Image
You can do anything, but not everything.
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
What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.
David Allen
Image
There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!
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
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
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
If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.
David Allen
Image
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.
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
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
There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
David Allen