Quotes About Efficiency

When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they're relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful side effects emerge that add to the outcomes of their efforts and the quality of their life.

THE PURPOSE OF this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to move toward more elegant and productive activity. In order to earn that freedom, however, your brain must engage on some consistent basis with all your commitments and activities. You must be assured that you're doing what you need to be doing, and that it's OK to be not doing what you're not doing.

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.

Too much information creates the same result as too little: you don't have what you need, when and in the way you need it.

This would be a Zen-like state of productivity, in which you deal with what's present from a perspective that is both detached and fully engaged.

That said, there's absolutely nothing wrong with creating a quick, informal, short list of "if I have time, I'd really like to . . ." kinds of things, picked from your Next Actions inventory.

Lots of people have been making lists for years but have never found the procedure to be particularly effective.

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

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

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

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

Appropriately used, checklists can be a tremendous asset in enhancing personal productivity and relieving mental pressure.

I have discovered that one of the major reasons many people haven't had a lot of success with "getting organized" is simply that they have tried to do all five phases at one time.

Open loops can include everything from really big to-do items like "End world hunger" to the more modest "Hire new assistant" to the tiniest task such as "Replace porch lightbulb.

Trying to keep a list on the calendar, which must then be reentered on another day if items don't get done, is demoralizing and a waste of time.

Throw away, shred, or recycle anything that has no potential future action or reference value.

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

Clarifying things on the front end, when they first appear on the radar, rather than on the back end, after trouble has developed, allows people to reap the benefits of managing action. Getting

Often, on the low-tech side, the more "executive" something looks, the more dysfunctional it really is.

Klara Sztucinski, and Elliott Kellman. The administrative

is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world.

Think carefully about where and when and under what circumstances you can do which actions, and organize your lists accordingly.

Let's examine the three requirements to make the collection phase work: 1. | Every open loop must be in your collection system and out of your head. 2. | You must have as few collection buckets as you can get by with. 3. | You must empty them regularly.