David Allen Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Mind, Fool, Productivity

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.36, Penguin

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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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  Taken, Done, Outcomes

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.58, Penguin

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• Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.

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  Games, Mosquitoes, Ruins

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.1, Penguin

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• Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

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  Communication, Problem, Shows

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• If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

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  Education, Perspective, Innovation

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2009

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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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  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2009

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• In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.

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  Rain, Entrepreneur, Mountain

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• Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.

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  Inspirational, Vacation, Agreement

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• The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.

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  Patience, Keys, Balance

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• A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience.

  David Allen

  Positive, Choices, Focus

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• There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs

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  Input, Interruptions

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• Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.

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  Creativity, Two Sides, Coins

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• You can do anything, not everything

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  Can Do

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• Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

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  Giving, Focus, Doe

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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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  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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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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  Splits, Take Control, Hardest

  Twitter post from May 30, 2009

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• At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

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  Knowing, Done, Terrain

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.65, Penguin

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

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  Change, Stress, Problem

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• I think positive stress is actually a good thing. It's sort of the stretch goal "Wow, let me see how much faster I can run" or "Let me see how many more ideas I can generate in five minutes."

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  Running, Stress, Thinking

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• If you’re at zero backlog, it’s a whole lot easier to change priorities.

  David Allen

  Zero, Priorities, Easier

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• Mosquitos ruin the safari.

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  Safari, Ruins

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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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  Clever, Stupid, Focus

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.

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  Mind, Reactions, Clear

  Twitter post from Sep 09, 2009

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• Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

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  Stress, Thinking, Two

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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.

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  Levels, Guts, Manage

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.147, Penguin

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