David Allen Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by David Allen
David Allen Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from David Allen on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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 ...
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.
You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. - Elbert Hubbard
An infinite number of things in the universe are held back from you only by your altitude and attitude.
A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.