My TedX talk at Claremont Colleges youtube.com/watch?v=CHxhjD…
David Allen
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David Allen
@gtdguy
Originator of GTD, founder of David Allen Co.
- Your brain is designed to recognize, not to remember. Leverage its strength & minimize its weakness.
- In my 72nd year, I'm realizing the single most profound key to being productive in my work & life is a sense of humor.
- If you're appropriately engaged with your life, you don't need more time. If you're not, more time won't help.
- What's got your attention right now? What's the next action? “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”--Goethe
- Nothing is impossible. But today I did nothing. - Winnie the Pooh
- Nice text interview I did about my favorite productivity books.
- Why is what's bothering you, bothering you? Either non-acceptance of reality, or lack of appropriate engagement to change it.
- If you haven't got a specific next action on a commitment, you haven't finished your thinking, & it will spin internally--the source of ambient anxiety.
- I will keep preaching this to myself & others: there are no problems, only projects.
- Justing turning 72, realizing that my two both easiest and most challenging things to do in my life are (1) relax and (2) stay conscious.
- You can only feel good about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing.
- Secret of Getting Things Done - clarify what "done" means & what "doing" looks like. #GTD
