Quotes About Organization

Getting Things Done is not some new technology or invention—it simply makes explicit the principles at work within what we all do implicitly. But with that awareness, you can then leverage those principles consciously to create more elegant results.

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

There are no interruptions—there are only mismanaged inputs.

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

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

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

Review whatever lists, overviews, and orientation maps you need to, as often as you need to, to get their contents off your mind. After

The quality of our workflow management is only as good as the weakest link in this five-phase chain, so all the links must be integrated and supported with consistent standards.

Having an organizational tool that allows you to easily make lists such as these, ad hoc, is quite worthwhile.

Clearing the mind and being flexible are key.

Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. —David Kekich The methods I present here are all based on two key objectives: (1) capturing all the things that need to get done—now

capturing all the things that might need to get done or have usefulness for you—

Projects, Waiting For, and Someday/Maybe lists need to be reviewed only as often as you think they have to be in order to stop you from wondering about them.

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

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

Getting Things Done is not simply about getting things done. It's about being appropriately engaged with your work and life.

In order to deal effectively with all of that, you must first identify and collect all those things that are "ringing your bell" in some way, and then plan how to handle them.

There are few people who can (or even should) expect to code everything based upon its priority, or who can maintain some predetermined list of to-dos that the first telephone call or instant message or interruption from their boss or spouse won't totally

The Weekly Review is the time to: Gather and process all your stuff. Review your system. Update your lists. Get clean, clear, current, and complete. You have to use your mind to get things off your mind. Most

Anyone with the need to be accountable to deal with more than what he or she can complete in the moment has the opportunity to do so more easily and elegantly than in the mind.

Organizations must create a culture in which it is acceptable that everyone has more to do than he or she can do, and in which it is sage to renegotiate agreements about what everyone is not doing.

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

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.