Book Titles

Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

By David Allen

Year Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0349408941
Categories: Productivity, Time Management

149 Quotes Found

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Getting Things Done:

…if you’ve just been hired into a new position, with new responsibilities that are relatively unfamiliar to you, you’ll want a framework of control and structure…

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Checklists can be highly useful to let you know what you don’t need to be concerned about.

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Be open to creating any kind of checklist as the urge strikes you. The possibilities are endless…

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Making lists, ad hoc, as they occur to you, is one of the most powerful yet subtlest and simplest procedures that you can install in your life.

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Appropriately used, checklists can be a tremendous asset in enhancing personal productivity and relieving mental pressure.

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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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You must be assured that you’re doing what you need to be doing, and that it’s OK to be not doing what you’re not doing.

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Getting Things Done:

…the condition of being present… is always the optimal state from which to operate.

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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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Getting Things Done:

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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