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Top David Allen Quotes

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Favorite David Allen Quotes

1. "The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender." ~ David Allen
2. "Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly." ~ David Allen
3. "Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them." ~ David Allen
4. "You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done." ~ David Allen
5. "Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started." ~ David Allen
6. "You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind." ~ David Allen
7. "When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding." ~ David Allen
8. "Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does." ~ David Allen
9. "Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax." ~ David Allen
10. "Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. —David Kekich" ~ David Allen
11. "The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster." ~ David Allen
12. "It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment." ~ David Allen
13. "Almost every project could be done better, and an infinite quantity of information is now available that could make that happen." ~ David Allen
14. "you can decide what, specifically, something means to you and what you intend to do about it, if anything; if you can use a placeholder as a reminder of what you need to attend to;" ~ David Allen
15. "It's the nature of human experience, which is always in some form of motion, to veer off course—sometimes in major, but consistently in minor, ways." ~ David Allen
16. "Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist." ~ David Allen

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