Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes
David AllenThings rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
David AllenThere'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'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'.
David AllenA lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.
David AllenEverything youโve 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, youโve generated personal failure, because you canโt do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source canโt be pin-pointed.
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