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
inspirational goal vision
The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.
inspirational vacation agreement
Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.
inspirational needs avoiding
When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.
inspirational wisdom powerful
You can do anything, but not everything.
inspirational encouraging encouragement
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
inspirational relax ability
Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
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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.
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.
games ruins mosquitoes
Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.
priorities manage
You don't manage priorities, you have them.