Quotes About Productivity

There are only so many hours per day, even as we push back the frontiers of sleeplessness. There are only so many people with whom we can maintain serious connections

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

next actions will make sense for you: • "Calls" • "At Computer" • "Errands" • "Office Actions" or "At Office" (miscellaneous) • "At Home" • "Agendas" (for people and meetings) • "Read/Review

We need to transform all the "stuff" we've attracted and accumulated into a clear inventory of meaningful actions, projects, and usable information. Almost all of the to-do lists I have seen over the years (when people had them at all!)

you have to think about your stuff more than you realize but not as much as you're afraid you might.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. —CHARLES DARWIN

Taking the inventory of your current work at all levels will automatically produce greater focus, alignment, and sense of priorities.

Creating "ABC" priority codes and daily "to-do" lists were key techniques developed to help people sort through their choices in some meaningful way.

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

Since the publication of my first two books, Getting Things Done and Ready for Anything, I've had the opportunity to engage

Doing nothing is not only a waste of energy—it often promotes decay and unnecessary complexity and stress.

If you're waiting to have a good idea before you have any ideas, you won't have many.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.