Quotes from David Allen

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon At

Being organized means nothing more or less than where something is matches what it means to you.

You are powerful all the time, by way of your attention and intention. The question is, Toward what are you pointing that power?

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. —SUSAN ERTZ

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. —Peter F. Drucker

There is too much distraction at the day-to-day, hour-to-hour level of commitments to allow for appropriate focus on the higher levels.

Bailing water in a leaky boat diverts energy from rowing the boat.

What's a good idea?" is a good question, but only when you're about 80 percent of the way through your thinking! Starting there would probably blow anyone's creative mental fuses.

Many of these businesspeople are successful because the crises they resolve and the opportunities they take advantage of are bigger than the problems they allow and create in their own offices, homes, and briefcases.

There are no interruptions—there are only mismanaged inputs.

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

An ambient angst pervades our society—there's a sense that somehow there's probably something we should be doing that we're not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution and from which there is no rest. On

It's OK to decide not to decide—as long as you have a decide-not-to-decide system.

Ceasing negative imaging will always cause your

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon

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

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. —O. H. Mowrer

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

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something. —George F. Nordenholt

Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working. —Anonymous

A vision without a task is but a dream; a task without a vision is but drudgery; a vision and a task is the hope of the world. —From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730

Empowerment naturally ensues for individuals as they move from complaining and victim modalities into outcomes and actions defined for direction. When that becomes the standard in a group, it creates significant improvement in the atmosphere as well as in the output.

Funnel all potentially meaningful inputs through minimal channels, directed to you for easily accessed review and assessment about their nature.

A "Projects" list • Project support material • Calendared actions and information • "Next Actions" lists • A "Waiting For" list • Reference material • A "Someday/Maybe" list