{"id":2140,"date":"2012-07-19T14:20:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2018-01-03T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:07:24","slug":"david-allen-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.next-action.co.uk\/2012\/07\/19\/david-allen-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"David Allen quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"David<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMost 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour mind is for having ideas, not holding them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can do anything, but not everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can do anything, but you can’t do everything\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks\u2014cutting loose debris that’s impeding forward motion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can fool everyone else, but you can’t fool your own mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can do anything, not everything\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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