“An overwhelming amount of potential work to do is cool. Otherwise people would never go to a gym.”

— David Allen

24 February 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/40795144949080064 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

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