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Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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  1. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is,
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  2. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    Thinking in a concentrated manner to define desired outcomes is something few people feel they have to do. But in truth, outcome thinking is one of the most effective means available for making wishes reality.
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  3. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    We need to transform all the "stuff" we've attracted and accumulated into a clear inventory of meaningful actions, projects, and usable information.
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  4. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen.
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  5. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    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.
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  6. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. Responding inappropriately to your e-mail, your thoughts about what you need to do, your children, or your boss will lead to less effective results than you'd like. Most people give either more or less attention to things than they deserve, simply because they don't operate with a mind like water.
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  7. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
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  8. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action. -Bill Raeder
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  9. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    The cognitive scientists have now proven the reality of "decision fatigue"-that every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power.
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  10. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    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.
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  11. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.
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  12. David Allen _ Getting Things Done: The Art

    Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment occurs, and wondrous things emerge. You become highly productive. You make things up, and you make them happen.
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