Quotes About Efficiency

three different kinds of activities you can be engaged in: Doing predefined work Doing work as it shows up Defining your work Doing

Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection tool, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through. Second

Aumentar la calidad de nuestro pensamiento y compromisos no disminuye la cantidad de cosas potencialmente relevantes e importantes que hay que gestionar.

No software, seminar, cool notebook, smartphone, or even personal mission statement will give you more than twenty-four hours in a day

It's a waste of time and energy to keep thinking about something that you make no progress on. And it only adds to your anxiety about what you should be doing and aren't. Most

1  |  Every open loop must be in your capture system and out of your head. 2  |  You must have as few capturing buckets as you can get by with. 3  |  You must empty them regularly.

We need to transform all the "stuff" we've attracted and accumulated into a clear inventory of meaningful actions, projects, and usable information. Almost

The reason most organizing systems haven't worked for most people is that they haven't yet transformed all the stuff they're trying to organize. As long as it's still stuff, it's not controllable.

You increase your productivity and creativity exponentially when you think about the right things at the right time and have the tools to capture your value-added thinking.

The vast majority of people have been trying to get organized by rearranging incomplete lists of unclear things;

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

The vast majority of people have been trying to get organized by rearranging incomplete lists of unclear things; they haven't yet realized how much and what they need to organize in order to get the real payoff. They need to gather everything that requires thinking about and then do that thinking if their organizational efforts are to be successful. The

You need no new skills to increase your productivity—just a new set of behaviors about when and where to apply them.

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.

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

Projects do not need to be listed in any particular order, whether by size or by priority. They just need to be on a master list

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.

If your head is your only system for placeholding, you will experience an attempted multitasking internally, which is psychologically impossible and the source of much stress for many people.

The goal for managing horizontally and vertically is the same: to get things off your mind and get things done. Appropriate action management lets you feel comfortable and in control as you move through your broad spectrum of work and life, while appropriate project focusing gets you clear about and on track with the specifics needed.

Three things go on your calendar: • time-specific actions; • day-specific actions; and • day-specific information.

What you've probably discovered, at least at some level, is that a calendar, though important, can really effectively manage only a small portion of what you need to organize. And daily to-do lists and simplified priority coding have proven inadequate to deal with the volume and variable nature of the average professional's workload.

The bottom line is that you and your partner are trading precious time in your life for this income. To me—and hopefully to you—that makes it critically important to ensure that you don't waste what you earn, but rather that you manage it efficiently and intelligently.

He didn't like having to pay for a phone that had Internet access, but it was like having a huge library and an army of research assistants on the cheap. He

Einheiten zu planen. Sein Leben war sehr strukturiert, bot