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Getting Things Done:
If you’re holding something only internally, it will be a broken agreement if you’re not moving on it in the moment.
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Getting Things Done:
…if you’re… focusing on only one thing at a time, without distraction, you’ll be in your ‘zone.’
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Getting Things Done:
…you can’t renegotiate an agreement with yourself that you can’t remember you made.
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Getting Things Done:
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks and then starting on the first one. – Mark Twain
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Getting Things Done:
Defining what real doing looks like… and organizing placeholder reminders that we can trust are master keys to productivity enhancement and creating a relaxed inner environment.
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Getting Things Done:
…usually, it’s the brightest and most sophisticated folks who have the most stuck piles in their offices, homes, e-mail, and heads.
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Getting Things Done:
Everything on your lists and in your stacks is either attractive or repulsive to you – there’s no neutral ground when it comes to your stuff.
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Getting Things Done:
The world is too unpredictable these days to permit assumptions about outcomes: we need to take responsibility for moving things to clarity.
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Getting Things Done:
’We’re all in this together’ is a worthy sentiment, but seldom a reality in the hard-nosed day-to-day world of work.
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Getting Things Done:
Productivity will improve only when individuals increase their operational responsiveness. And in knowledge work, that means clarifying actions on the front end instead of the back.
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