David Allen
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.Collection: Life
You can do anything, but not everything.Collection: Inspirational
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.Collection: Procrastination
You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.Collection: Issues
Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.Collection: Time Management
It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.Collection: Easier
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.Collection: Mind
Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.Collection: Motivation
Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relaxCollection: Inspirational
The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.Collection: Agreement
If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Successful
You can claim that God is guiding you and revealing to you the answer or solution to your problem. Accept the truth that the nature of Infinite Intelligence is to respond to you, and you will receive an answer without the aid of any man. You can boldly affirm, “I am whole, perfect, strong, loving, illumined, prosperous and inspired.” As you continue to affirm these truths and feel and believe what you claim, without the help or cooperation of anyone, you will express what you feel to be true. Remember, whatever you attach to I AM, you become.Collection: Strong
A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.Collection: Successful
A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.Collection: People
Most often, the reason something is "on your mind" is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcomes is; you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust. That's why it's on your mind.Collection: Mind
Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.Collection: Creative
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hardCollection: Funny
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.Collection: Details
You can do anything, but you can't do everythingCollection: Focus
'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'.Collection: Writing
Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.Collection: Moving
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Cutting
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.Collection: Vacation
It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.Collection: Responsibility
Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Real
There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.Collection: Reason
A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Thinking
Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.Collection: May
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.Collection: Decision
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.Collection: Moving
Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance.Collection: Stress
If we didn't have any stress, we'd never grow and you'd probably wouldn't test your mettle and you'd probably wouldn't come up with a lot of creative stuff that people come up with by being somewhat on the edge.Collection: Stress
Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.Collection: Stress
The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.Collection: Patience
You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Taken
Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.Collection: Games
Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.Collection: Communication
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Rain
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Clever
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.Collection: Positive
There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputsCollection: Input
Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.Collection: Creativity