David Allen
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Originator of GTD, founder of David Allen Co.
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Your brain is designed to recognize, not to remember. Leverage its strength & minimize its weakness.
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In my 72nd year, I'm realizing the single most profound key to being productive in my work & life is a sense of humor.
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If you're appropriately engaged with your life, you don't need more time. If you're not, more time won't help.
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What's got your attention right now? What's the next action? “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”--Goethe
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Nothing is impossible. But today I did nothing. - Winnie the Pooh
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Nice text interview I did about my favorite productivity books.
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Why is what's bothering you, bothering you? Either non-acceptance of reality, or lack of appropriate engagement to change it.
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If you haven't got a specific next action on a commitment, you haven't finished your thinking, & it will spin internally--the source of ambient anxiety.
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I will keep preaching this to myself & others: there are no problems, only projects.
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Justing turning 72, realizing that my two both easiest and most challenging things to do in my life are (1) relax and (2) stay conscious.
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You can only feel good about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing.
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Life is a puzzle. So best to get your straight pieces in place first. Get control of what you can, then be spontaneous.
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GTD = freedom of consciousness to be present with what you’re doing.
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Goals are only current signposts which, when focused on, create new ideas and directions, in the present. Don't worship them. They may change tomorrow, because you'll be smarter then.
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You are not your work, nor even your life. You DO work, & you HAVE a life. Control them, or they will control you.
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The coolest things I do are usually not on my lists, but because of them.
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Ideas that show up looking at the fire in my fireplace are very different than those looking at my email. Arrange for both.
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Fascinating the useful & necessary things I find to do, to avoid the more useful and more necessary things I probably should be doing.
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Sometimes we need to lose control to take ourselves to a new level to get control of.
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Better expression of a truth: you don't learn something until you ATTEMPT to teach it.
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Great cooks and gardeners invest heavily in prep and cleanup, for sustainable creativity. Masters of the art of work do the same.
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Small things, done consistently in strategic places, create major impact. (Motivational transformation is highly overrated).
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If you have 52min, nice interview I just did unpacking many of the subtleties of
#GTD
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http://t.co/If9nfLjvq1
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Rich, 1-hr interview I did 6 yrs ago, finally public. Pretty complete exposition of
#GTD
http://t.co/YG4kHiMJV2
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Relax, go timeless. The busy-ness is part of the game to learn, but not the goal.
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What is "success"? Nothing more or less than a positive life experience.
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Move as slow as you can for the next 5 minutes. Notice what you experience. Speed does not equal productivity.
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Wow, just saw
http://t.co/I0mId96mhA
(19 min). Dramatic example of GTD principle of reviewing higher horizons.
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I'm now officially 10 years on Twitter. Started when we did our GTD Summit in SFO 2009. Still love the haiku-esque-ness.
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Excited to finally reveal a personal project that's been in the works for 12+ months: the GTD Summit in Amsterdam June 20 & 21, 2019. A gathering of the most productive, effective and inspirational people you will ever meet.
#gtdsummit
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If you're appropriately engaged w/your life, you don't need more time. If you're not, more time won't help.
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There is never enough time to do what you really don't want to do. Time managemet is really value management.
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Key life success factor: recognizing the value of, & implementing, "doing nothing" time. Tune out, to tune in.
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Get things under control first, then get focused. If your ship is sinking, you don't care where it's pointed.
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I just got a text referring to GTD with a typo - "getting thinks done." Brilliant recast.
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My idea of a good time. A train stop with nothing to do but stop.
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Just released a GTD implementation doc we've generated after many yrs in this work. Real stuff.
http://bit.ly/cdigdA
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Handle "now," & "next" will be just as easy. Deal appropriately with what's present & the right & obvious thing will show up next for you. Trust me.
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Avid GTDer Bill Meade has been vociferous about "restarting" GTD techniques & tips. Rich blog.
http://t.co/QF9Mrzr9
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My Dutch residency was just renewed for another 5 years. Yay! (Maybe perfect timing for worst-case U.S. politics).
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"Stress comes from not the work, but unrealistically structuring your life against the work." - Dr. Maude Dull (ICU physician)
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Wonderful, creative 8-min video on the GTD "Capture" process.
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Deciding what to throw away will teach you a lot about where you're going.
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You're most creative when you have the freedom to make a mess. But if you're in one, you can't make one.
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I organize for freedom, not for hard work.
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Cool, eProductivity (my favorite
#GTD
app) just launched a free version
http://www.eproductivity.com/dx/essentials
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Your still, small voice of wisdom is always there. Quiet the noise w/GTD to listen.
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The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.
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Fun interview w/NPR & NYTimes guy about the distraction culture. 40 minutes; but rich for GTDers.
http://n.pr/95Js41
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I love it that my new Fitbit device gives me a buzz at 10k steps today as I walk to discard our empty wine bottles!
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My 2-min reminder of key productivity/balance/control/focus behavior - for myself as well!
http://t.co/8hcrvupR
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If your on iPhone, we just compiled our best practices using the native apps for GTD:
http://t.co/Ih3n9WYWMW
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My TedX Amsterdam last Friday. 18 minutes re: the Natural Planning Model.
http://t.co/H0RwwIvgB5
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Too controlled is out of control. Let go, & let God (or at least the bigger You.) Relax.
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"if Steve Jobs had been glued to his iPhone, he never would have invented the iPhone." - Theo Compernolle (author: Brain Chains)
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Taking a walk. With my dog, my wife, my computer, my partner, my email...and/or with myself. Do it.
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Terrific video on motivation from Dan Pink (heard this schtick last wk at ASTD conf).
http://bit.ly/bQepg7
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Nice 34min recent interview I did--good hi-level stuff of my stuff.
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Sometimes what’s simply happening in my ordinary world In the moment is as rich as anything can be.
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Just got best capture tool I've found for iPhone.
http://t.co/Vttl8lsOfu
Smartly simple design by 10yr GTDer.
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It's a lot more comfortable living life with an inventory of things that fit.
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Probably one of the toughest zen admonitions ever: When hungry eat; when tired, sleep.
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Meetings handled well reduce email. Email handled well reduces meetings.
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Training yourself to identify & minimize your backlog automatically trains you to say "no" with more grace and ease.
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Keys to getting things done: know what "done" means & what "doing" looks like.
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Nice up close & personal interview w/me about my life & career, if you're curious.
http://t.co/klKWhFUP
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40 yrs ago, Arthur Clarke described our world today. Wow. Stunning 6-min piece.
http://t.co/kM7miwtgg7
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3 min vid re: productivity, you'll relate to, proportional to your age.
http://t.co/DUcisCyo
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Capturing, clarifying & organizing actions from smart thinking allows you to do smart things when you're thick & dull.
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New year's best practices: resolutions & revelations. Resolve incompletions & reveal ideal scenes. Make no new commitments!
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Think cleaning & organizing tools is important for cooking dinner, repairing a car, or open heart surgery, how about your life?
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