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Getting Things Done:
A great hammer doesn’t make a great carpenter; but a great carpenter will always want to have a great hammer.
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Getting Things Done:
We need to have a way to overview our mass of collected information with some form of effective categorization.
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Getting Things Done:
Things you name, you own. Collected and unnamed stuff owns you.
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Getting Things Done:
You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know everything you’re not doing.
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Getting Things Done:
What you don’t want to do is to let yourself get wrapped up in things piece-by-piece, trying to decide this or that.
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Getting Things Done:
You don’t want to leave anything in ‘in’ for an indefinite period of time, because then it would without fail creep back into your consciousness…
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Getting Things Done:
When you’re in processing mode, you must get into the habit of starting at one end and just cranking through items one at a time, in order.
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Getting Things Done:
The focus on just one thing forces the requisite attention and decision making to get through all your stuff.
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Getting Things Done:
…most things you deal with are not to be acted upon the first time you become aware of them.
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Getting Things Done:
…every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power.
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