When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they’re relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful side effects emerge that add to the outcomes of their efforts and the quality of their life.

— David Allen

David Allen Quotes

When time itself turned into a work factor, personal calendars became a key work tool.

— David Allen

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.” The list of projects is the compilation of finish lines we put before us, to keep our next actions moving on all tracks appropriately.

— David Allen

A task left undone remains undone in two places – at the actual location of the task, and inside your head. Incomplete tasks in your head consume the energy of your attention as they gnaw at your conscience. – Brahma Kumaris.

— David Allen

A vision without a task is but a dream; a task without a vision is but drudgery; a vision and a task is the hope of the world. – From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730.

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Rule your mind or it will rule you. – Horace.

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My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects.

— David Allen

Bright people have the capability of freaking out faster and more dramatically than anyone else.

— David Allen

Water is what it is, and does what it does. It can overwhelm, but it’s not overwhelmed. It can be still, but it is not impatient. It can be forced to change course, but it is not frustrated.

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Anything that does not belong where it is, the way it is, is an “open loop,” which will be pulling on your attention if it’s not appropriately managed. In.

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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. – THOMAS EDISON.

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It’s fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind.

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Uncaptured, unclarified, and therefore unmanaged things that you have agreed to do own a piece of you and give you no rest.

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Complaining is a sign that someone isn’t willing to risk moving on a changeable situation, or won’t consider the immutable circumstance in his or her plans.

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Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.

— David Allen

Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what’s being presented – challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That creates engagement, which is the key to understanding.

— David Allen

This would be a Zen-like state of productivity, in which you deal with what’s present from a perspective that is both detached and fully engaged.

— David Allen

The world itself is never overwhelmed or confused – only we are, due to how we are engaged with it. An.

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But sometimes I have to get out of my comfort zone to stay motivated to do excellent work over the long term.

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I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. – Oliver Wendell Holmes.

— David Allen

I have learned over the years that the most important thing to deal with is whatever is most on your mind. The fact that you think it shouldn’t be on your mind is irrelevant. It’s there, and it’s there for a reason.

— David Allen
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