Quotes From "Getting Things Done: The Art Of Stressfree Productivity" By

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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. Unknown
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It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company Unknown
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When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen. Unknown
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The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices. Unknown
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People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it Unknown
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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. Unknown
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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. Unknown
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It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind Unknown
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Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment occurs, and wondrous things emerge. You become highly productive. You make things up, and you make them happen. Unknown
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Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it. Unknown
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At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have? Unknown