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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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Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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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.
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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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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
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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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'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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There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs
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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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The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.
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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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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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My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
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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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You can do anything, but not everything.
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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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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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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