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Getting Things Done:
A paradox has emerged in this new millennium: people have enhanced quality of life, but at the same time they are adding to their stress by taking on more than they have resources to handle.
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Getting Things Done:
The ever-new communication technologies have exponentially magnified the lack of clear limits to our commitments and our lives.
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Getting Things Done:
There is a great need for new methods, technologies, and work habits to help us get on top of our world.
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Getting Things Done:
Upping the quality of our thinking and commitments does not diminish the quantity of potentially relevant and important stuff to manage.
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Getting Things Done:
…the most stress they [people] experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
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Getting Things Done:
Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind… that you know you’ll come back to regularly and sort through.
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Getting Things Done:
Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not.
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Getting Things Done:
…once we allow stuff to come into our lives and work, we have an inherent commitment to ourselves to define and clarify its meaning.
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Getting Things Done:
The substantive issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real work is to manage our actions.
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Getting Things Done:
Clarifying things on the front end, when they first appear on the radar, rather than on the back end, after trouble has developed, allows people to reap the benefits of managing action.
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