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
giving focus doe
Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.
focus can-do
You can do anything, but you can't do everything
clever stupid focus
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.
positive choices focus
A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience.
moving people focus
Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.
issues focus management
You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.
across attract bears cherry fruit hill quite seen signal trees
We have seen bears in the trees across from Signal Hill Elementary. Some fruit-bearing trees don't attract bears such as cherry trees because the fruit is quite small.
affected consumer extent less money
Ultimately, the consumer is going to be affected to the extent that they will have less discretionary money to spend,
inspirational goal vision
The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.
rain entrepreneur mountain
In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.
mind reactions clear
Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
reason no-reason
There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
thinking people done
Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.
mind want outcomes
Most often, the reason something is "on your mind" is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcomes is; you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust. That's why it's on your mind.