Quotes from David Allen

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. —Michael McGriffy, M.D.

Rule your mind or it will rule you. —Horace

My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects.

Bright people have the capability of freaking out faster and more dramatically than anyone else.

Water is what it is, and does what it does. It can overwhelm, but it's not overwhelmed. It can be still, but it is not impatient. It can be forced to change course, but it is not frustrated.

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

Frankly, as soon as you have two things to do stored only in your mind, you've generated personal failure, because you can't do them both at the same time. This produces a pervasive stress factor whose source can't be pinpointed.

Anything that does not belong where it is, the way it is, is an "open loop," which will be pulling on your attention if it's not appropriately managed. In

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. —THOMAS EDISON

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

Uncaptured, unclarified, and therefore unmanaged things that you have agreed to do own a piece of you and give you no rest.

I have learned over the years that the most important thing to deal with is whatever is most on your mind. The fact that you think it shouldn't be on your mind is irrelevant. It's there, and it's there for a reason.

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.

Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what's being presented—challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That creates engagement, which is the key to understanding.

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

Many of us hold ourselves back from imagining a desired outcome unless someone can show us how to get there. Unfortunately, that's backward in terms of how our minds work to generate and recognize solutions and methods.

It is better to be wrong than to be vague. —Freeman Dyson

there are five discrete stages that we go through as we deal with our work. We (1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.

What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results. —Peter F. Drucker

Have you envisioned wild success about anything lately?

sort of planning activity: (1) those that still have your attention even after you've determined their next actions, and (2) those about which potentially

Your principles created the boundaries of your plan.

contexto, tiempo disponible, energía disponible y prioridad.

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