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It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later

It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.

David Allen
Responsibility, Acceptance, Reality
David Allen (2008). “Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life”, p.192, Penguin

Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

David Allen
Teacher, Entrepreneur, Coaches

Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.

David Allen
Mind, Reactions, Clear
Twitter post from Sep 09, 2009

A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.

David Allen
Real, Common Sense, Achievement

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.

David Allen
Thinking, People, Complaining

Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

David Allen
Stress, Thinking, Two

Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.

David Allen
Vacation, Years, People

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

David Allen
Levels, Guts, Manage
David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.147, Penguin

Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.

David Allen
May, Simplify, Values

Some people have to move, physically, to "get" something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.

David Allen
Moving, People, Chairs
"'Getting Things Done' Guru David Allen on Organizing Your Life". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. March 25, 2009.

Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance.

David Allen
Stress, Exercise, Expression
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

David Allen
Decision, Doe, May
Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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