"Focusing on values does not simplify your life.……" — David Allen
"Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity."
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55 Quotes by David Allen
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Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
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Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.
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There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.
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You can do anything, but you can't do everything
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Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the…
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Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you…
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Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.
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It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus,…
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the…
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You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.
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Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been…
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More Complexity Quotes
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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of…
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