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181 " Think carefully about where and when and under what circumstances you can do which actions, and organize your lists accordingly. "
― David Allen , Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
182 " Let’s examine the three requirements to make the collection phase work: 1. | Every open loop must be in your collection system and out of your head. 2. | You must have as few collection buckets as you can get by with. 3. | You must empty them regularly. "
183 " Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.—Dee Hock "
184 " next actions. Those ideas fall into the broad category of “project support materials,” and may be anything from a notion about something you might want to do on your next vacation "
185 " Instead, the key to managing all of your stuff is managing your actions. "
186 " The ability to leverage that thinking with good collection devices that are always at hand is key to increased productivity. "
187 " Your Mind Doesn’t Have a Mind of Its Own At least a portion of your mind is really kind of stupid, in an interesting way. If it had any innate intelligence and logic, it would remind you of the things you needed to do only when you could do something about them. "
188 " As a rule, it’s best to stick with one general-reference system except for a very limited number of discrete topics. "
189 " More goals may not be necessary for you now—you need comfort with the ones you’ve already put in motion, and the confidence that you can execute elegantly on any new ones. "
190 " should enhance and align with the ones above it. In other words, your priorities will sit in a hierarchy from the top down. Ultimately, if "
191 " You can fool everyone else, but you can’t fool your own mind. "
192 " When do I need to see what, in what form, to get it off my mind? "
193 " Which of you are doing only what you were hired to do? "
194 " every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power. Deciding to “not decide” about an e-mail or anything else is another one of those decisions, which drains your psychological fuel tank. "
195 " have discovered that one of the major reasons many people haven’t had a lot of success with getting organized is simply that they have tried to do all five steps at one time. "
196 " Solo el que maneja sus ideas con rapidez es capaz de dominarlas, y solo el que las domina no acaba esclavizado por ellas. "
197 " A renegotiated agreement is not a broken one. "
198 " When I habitually applied the tenets of this program it saved my life . . . when I faithfully applied them, it changed my life. "
199 " Most people have major leaks in their collection process. Many have collected things but haven't processed or decided what action to take about them. Others make good decisions about "stuff" in the moment but lose the value of that thinking because they don't efficiently organizethe results. Still others have good systems but don't review them consistently enough to keep them functional. Finally, if any one of these links is weak, what someone is likely to choose to do at any point in time may not be the best option. "
200 " That means as soon as you tell yourself that you might need to do something, and store it only in your head, there’s a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time. Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, it thinks you should be doing right now. Frankly, as soon as you have two things to do stored only in your mind, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do them both at the same time. This produces a pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pinpointed. "