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

One missed e-mail, untracked commitment, or decision avoided can have hugely magnified consequences.

Almost every project could be done better, and an infinite quantity of information is now available that could make that happen.

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.

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

The better you get, the better you better get.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

Chaos isn't the problem; how long it takes to find coherence is the real game. - Doc Childre and Bruce Crier

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.

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

Creating "ABC" priority codes and daily "to-do" lists were key techniques developed to help people sort through their choices in some meaningful way.

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

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.

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

At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have?

Mosquitos ruin the safari.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because what "doing" would look like, and where it happens, hasn't been decided. In

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. - David Kekich

Every decision to act is an intuitive one. The challenge is to migrate from hoping it's the right choice to trusting it's the right choice.

A great hammer doesn't make a great carpenter; but a great carpenter will always want to have a great hammer.

A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

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

The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices.

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.

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer ... it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community ...

You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

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

Trusting yourself and the source of your intelligence is the most elegant lesson of experiencing freedom and manifesting personal productivity.

There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.

Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. - Anonymous

You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. - Elbert Hubbard

Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.

An infinite number of things in the universe are held back from you only by your altitude and attitude.

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

A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.

You can do anything, but you can't do everything

It's the nature of human experience, which is always in some form of motion, to veer off course - sometimes in major, but consistently in minor, ways.

The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it.

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.

Don't just do something. Stand there. - Rochelle Myer

[T]he last thing a fish notices is water.

Most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

The focus we hold in our minds affects what we perceive and how we perform.

Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.

Minute-to-minute and day-to-day you don't have time to think. You need to have already thought.

You can do anything, not everything

Others need more physical horsepower. Some need very little of either.

When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.

Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept. Even

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. - Alvin Toffler

Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

you have to think about your stuff more than you realize but not as much as you're afraid you might.

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

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

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. - WILL ROGERS

The most experienced planner in the world is your brain.

Let our advance worrying become our advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill

A renegotiated agreement is not a broken one.

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.

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

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

You can do anything, but not everything.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

The substantive issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real work is to manage our actions. That

Klara Sztucinski, and Elliott Kellman. The administrative

If you don't fall off the wagon regularly, you're not playing a big enough game.

Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is.

A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.

Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

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

Taking the inventory of your current work at all levels will automatically produce greater focus, alignment, and sense of priorities.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. - Nadia Boulanger

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster.

You must use your mind to get things off your mind.

There are no interruptions, really - there are simply mismanaged occurrences.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. - Sally Kempton

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I

Rule your mind or it will rule you. - Horace Between

Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

You need no new skills to increase your productivity - just a new set of behaviors about when and where to apply them.

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

You don't manage priorities, you have them.