David Allen

The art of resting the

mind and the power of

dismissing from it all care

and worry is probably one

of the secrets of our great

men.

David Allen

You must use

your mind to

get things off

your mind.

David Allen

Reacting is

automatic, but

thinking is not.

David Allen

It's a waste of time

and energy to keep

thinking about

something that you

make no progress on.

David Allen

You don't

manage

priorities - you

have them.

David Allen

There is usually an

inverse relationship

between how much

something is on your

mind and how much

it's getting done.

David Allen

Keep everything in

your head or out of

your head. If it's in

between, you won't

trust either one.

David Allen

You don't actually

do a project; you

can only do action

steps related to it.

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David Allen

Minute-to-minute and

day-to-day you don't

have time to think. You

need to have already

thought.

David Allen

If you're waiting to

have a good idea

before you have

any ideas, you

won't have many.

David Allen

The habit of clarifying the

next action on projects, no

matter what the situation,

is fundamental to you

staying in relaxed control.

David Allen

You need no new skills to

increase your productivity

and reduce your stress-just

an enhanced set of

systematic behaviors with

which to apply them.

David Allen

One of the best tricks

for enhancing your

productivity is having

organizing tools you

love to use.

David Allen

Things you name,

you own.

Collected but

unnamed stuff

owns you.

David Allen

It's fine to decide not to

decide about something.

You just need a decide-

not-to-decide system to

get it off your mind.

David Allen

Simplifying your

focus on actions

will ensure that

more of them get

done.

David Allen

The Weekly Review

is the critical success

factor for marrying

your larger

commitments to your

day-to-day activities.

David Allen

The right amount

of complexity is

whatever creates

optimal simplicity.

David Allen

Success is

learning to deal

with Plan B.

David Allen

If you're not totally

sure what your job

is, it will always feel

overwhelming.

David Allen

The middle of

every successful

project looks like

a disaster.

David Allen

You need to set up

systems and tricks that get

you to think about your

projects and situations

more frequently, more

easily, and more in depth.

David Allen

Even if you erase the

thoughts after a few

minutes, just the act of

writing them down facilitates

a constructive thinking

process like nothing else.

David Allen

The sense of anxiety and

guilt doesn't come from

having too much to do; it's

the automatic result of

breaking agreements with

yourself.

David Allen

It's the irony of

professional

development-the better

you get, the better you'd

better get.

David Allen

Anything that is held

only in your head will

take up either more or

less attention than it

deserves.

David Allen

When the only thing on

your mind is the only thing

on your mind, you'll be

'present,' in your 'zone,'

with no distinction between

work and play.

David Allen

Your mind is for

having ideas, not

for holding them.

David Allen

You can only put your

conscious attention on

one thing at a time. If

that's all that has your

attention, you're in flow.

David Allen

Wouldn't it be great not

to have to think too hard

about what you need to

think about?

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