You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.