David Allen Quotes

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• Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
• Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.
• There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.
• You can do anything, but you can't do everything
• 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…
• Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people,…
• Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.
• 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…
• The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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…
• You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.
• Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
• 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…
• A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.
• There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
• There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!
• Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
• We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people who seem to…
• Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
• 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.

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