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“Every thought deserves its own place in the universe. How & where do you capture yours?”

7 February 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/8780594220 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“It takes a healthy sense of self to feel OK with nothing happening in your head.”

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3 June 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/76664470704889857 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“The balance you have between drive & patience may be your master key to success.”

David Allen

26 October 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/129326605360316416 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Rivers of creative flow are log jammed w/ heads holding on to incompletions, old business, & avoided decisions.”

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26 December 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/151401985902526464 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Engaging in complexity is a key to simplicity. Fear of it will haunt your inner recesses.”

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12 November 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/135526192148267009 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“A big surprise is coming toward you. How clear do you want to be about all your current commitments, when it hits?”

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19 October 2009 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/4977274727 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“The present-ness demanded by a crisis is possible w/out crisis. Understand the keys to appropriate engagement. GTD.”

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13 August 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/235132922565369857 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Cool how many layers of my mind there are to clear, each time I do it…& how different my world is then.”

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12 February 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/36269718428073984 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Your system is not your tech - it's the nature of the content & the behavior w/which you engage with it.”

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26 June 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/17062938246 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, so you can pay attention to what really has your attention.”

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15 September 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/114341777418354689 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“Your attention will continue to be grabbed by anything until you give it the appropriate attention.”

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18 September 2009 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/4084592042 Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“I suggest that you use your mind to think about things, rather than to think of them. You want to be adding value... not simply reminding yourself they exist.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 11

“It's great to clear your psychic decks so you can go into the weekend ready for refreshment and recreation, with nothing on your mind.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 8

“The organizing system merely provides placeholders for all your oprn loops and options so your mind can... make the necessary intuitive, moment-to-moment strategic decisions.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 7

“[Y]ou must have a clear picture in your mind of what success would look, sound, and feel like.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 3

“The goal is to get projects and situations off your mind, but not to lose any potentially useful ideas.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 3

“[I]f it's just you, attempting to come up with a "good idea" before defining your purpose, creating a vision, and collecting lots of bad ideas is likely to give you a case of creative constipation.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 3

“If you're waiting to have good ideas before you have any ideas, you won't have many ideas.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 3

“The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them. It has no sense of past or future.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 1