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It’s fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind.
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It’s important that you record the date on everything that you hand off to others. This, of all the categories in your personal system, is the most crucial to keep tabs on.
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The function of an organization system is primarily to supply the reminders you need to see when you need to see them, so you can trust your choices about what you’re doing…
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…clear out many of your notes once they become inactive, unreal, or redundant, to keep the whole system from catching the ‘stale’ virus.
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…your system cannot be static. In order to support appropriate action choices, it must be kept up-to-date.
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Your personal system and behaviors need to be established in such a way that you can see all the action options you need to see, when you need to see them.
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The real trick to ensuring the trustworthiness of the whole organization system lies in regularly refreshing your thinking and your system from a more elevated perspective.
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…one of the best reasons for having very clean edges to your personal management system: it makes it easy to continue productive activity when you’re not in top form.
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…the best human systems are often the simplest and least sophisticated ones.
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By embracing email, we inadvertently crippled the systems that make us so good at working together.
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