Bloggers From The United States

"How, and how often, you relate to your system is an essential part of your system."

"Point of in-box empty: having a complete, current inventory of what matters, so you deal clearly with what's new & what's now."

"What do you want to have true? Pick something between total fantasy & 51% believable, get going, & readjust as you learn."

""Organization" for most people is simply an incomplete list, or amorphous piles, of still-unclear commitments."

"#GTD 2.0 = what to do with your head, once it's clear."

"If you could stop thinking, letting go of trying control your world w/your mind, where would your attention go?"

"Living life in "emergency scan" mode self-perpetuates instead of self-corrects. Deal w/a non-emergency before it is one."

"Perfection is graciously dealing with imperfection."

"You'll be motivated to exercise the #GTD method to the degree you really care about what you're doing."

"The less you are driven by what goes on in this material world, the more you will pay attention to its details."

"How much attention have I given what really deserves my attention today?"

"Is what you're about to do more likely to expand or limit your ability to get what you really want? Executive intelligence."

"Top need for top professionals: psychic space. Fewer distractions & more contexts for thinking. Not more time."

"Maximizing is not optimizing. Sustainable engagement wins, in the end."

"Whether you know what you're doing or not, efficiency & style are your only improvement opportunities."

"Your ability to deal w/surprise is in inverse relation to the amount of your backlog of "stuff"."

"You don't have to like your life to get it off your mind. You DO have to renegotiate your agreements w/yourself about it."

"Not stopping to really catch up (Weekly Review, GTDers!) means trying to catch up constantly & never getting there."

"Making decisions when you can vs. when you have to makes for better decisions."

"Being in control isn't forceful manipulation but rather highly cooperative engagement w/ what's really going on."

"The nature of creative thinking runs counter to the nature of dealing w/its output. Ability & system to do both is freedom. GTD."

"Resistance to deciding the next action (before we have to) stems from how it exposes the vulnerability of our intelligence."

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

"A commitment kept only in your head will be given too much or too little attention."

"If u can't see everything you've committed to, at all levels, you'll be driven by latest and loudest. #SmallBizChat"

"You talk to yourself 50,000 times a day. What's 300 emails? #SmallBizChat"

"Simply ask & answer: if we were being wildly successful in fulfilling our purpose, what would it look, sound, & feel like? #SmallBizChat"

"If you admit your wildest dream & uncover why you want it, you have a big key to make tomorrow a better day."

"GTD supplies the reset button for all parts of life & work."

"If you figured out why making a list reduces overwhelm & confusion, you'd keep nothing in your head the rest of your life."

"Organizations' problems can all be traced to someone not telling the right someone what had their attention, when it did."

"GTD gives freedom to the right, structure to the left (brains, that is!)"

"Great news about lots of email is how consistently it forces you to get clear what's really meaningful to your work/life."

"Clearing the deck is great, but sailing adventurous waters is the real game. (Just can't do it w/out a clear deck.)"

"Eternal #GTD paradox: when you get the principle, the tool doesn't matter. But simultaneosly it matters so much more."

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

"Making decisions requires energy, but not deciding about whether to decide requires even more energy."

"Trying to ignore secondarily meaningful things gives them more meaning than they deserve."

"Get things under control first, then get focused. If your ship is sinking, you don't care where it's pointed."

"I've never had to go very far to learn everything I have learned. I just had to care about something & pay attention."

"Defaulting to ur psyche as ur system instead of an objective one makes maintaining the system too much trouble."

"Over-prepare. Then go with the flow."

"Secret to finding, quickly, the corner pieces, then the outside edges, to the jigsaw puzzle of life: GTD"

"Your mind receives, remembers, & reminds, & sucks at all 3, compared to an objective external system a la GTD."

"Good ideas are infinitely available. We've just limited our availablitly to them. The music's not in the radio."

"There is never enough time to do what you really don't want to do. Time managemet is really value management."

"The coolest things I do usually aren't on my lists, but because of them."

"GTD essence: attention cleared of residue & distraction, pointed at the right thing."

"Valuable thought occurred today to share. Obvious in the moment. Can't retrieve now. Didn't capture. I teach this. Damn."

"Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them."