David Allen
David Allen
Notable for his self-help books Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001) and Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life (2008), Allen formulated a method of time management called "Getting Things Done" and founded both Actioneer, Inc. and the David Allen Company.
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 December 1945
causes doe getting-things-done
Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.
creative want organized
Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
decision reason force
The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
feelings favourite
Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
inspirational vacation agreement
Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.
focus can-do
You can do anything, but you can't do everything
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The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.
inspirational needs avoiding
When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.
mind fool productivity
You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
brain outcomes steps
Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.
successful people important
What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.
steps action projects
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.
decision choices challenges
Every decision to act is an intuitive one. The challenge is to migrate from hoping it's the right choice to trusting it's the right choice.
cutting cobwebs gains
Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.