Bloggers From The United States

"When you're in the middle of nowhere and you see something moving in the jungle, you're forced to become a creative problem solver."

"He doesn't do anything small. Everything he does, he does right."

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

"Appropriate focus on the right stuff gives the freedom to not have to focus on anything, on a regular basis."

"What maps do you need to review, to see where you are & what to do next? Core to self-management systems."

"If you're appropriately engaged w/your life, you don't need more time. If you're not, more time won't help."

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

"Using your head to manage your life = creativity constipation."

"Great question to ask, to relax: What should I consider right now, decide what, and let go?"

"What would your ideal exec ass't let you know - & when - & where? That should inform your best #GTD system."

"Staying in control daily, weekly, & yearly requires different things for each. Handling one doesn't handle the others."

"The purpose of a purpose? Tunes you to meaningful things you wouldn't be aware of, otherwise."

"My daily meta-map lists: events coming up; major projects for me; emerging interests; my accountabilities."

"Collect, process, organize & review what has your attention, so you can stop half-trying to be doing all that, constantly."

"Are you overwhelmed pulling weeds, when you really just need to replant the garden?"

"The greater your confidence w/how to achieve control & focus, as needed, the wilder & crazier you can be."

"Organizing without first capturing & clarifying what needs organizing is simply rearranging your angst."

"Meetings handled well reduce email. Email handled well reduces meetings."

"Keys to getting things done: know what "done" means & what "doing" looks like."

"What would you do w/more space, if you had it? Without a good answer, you'll not have the juice to really do #GTD."

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

"Freedom to give full attention to what you want (vs. It being held hostage by unmanaged stuff) is the GTD promise."

"When you know how, any time, to get to the place where it's all sort of funny, you've mastered GTD."

"Changing what you want to get done takes a second. Recalibrating & getting the new thing to happen is a martial art."

"Even the smallest knoll to climb, to see a little more than the machine guns firing at me, is salvation."

"When you know you'll get email to zero, you're free to deal with the ones you choose, when you choose. Most productive."

"Your tools are only as good as they serve your intention. What do you want to have true? What Do you need to have viewable re: that?"

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

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

"Outcome/next-action thinking, before you must, prepares you for when you must. And that time will come."

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

"Your mind doesn't have one. If it did, it would only remind you of something when you could do something about it."

"Being organized simply means that where something is matches what it means to you. No more, no less."

"The latest & loudest thing in your psyche is seldom the most important thing that should take up residence there."

"If u magically had 0 emails, in 10 days you'd be back to what you had. Issue is not volume, but tolerance of backlog."

"It's hard to say no when you're not aware of everything you've said yes to."

"How can you justify keeping a calendar & still keep most of your other commitments w/yourself in your head?"

"Hold still enough to grapple w/the simple questions, & the complexities become clear."

"Things hold your attention hostage until you give them the appropriate attention."

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

"To be free to be spontaneously & creatively shallow requires depth of character & a disciplined focus."

"If you're already in a mess, you're not free to make one."

"Productivity requires expansiveness & spontaneity as much as structure & control."

"If your backlog of stuff isn't zero'd regularly, you're hostage to your own incessant angst that you should."

"You've really done your job when what's true? (Challenging question for all of us!)"

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

"Only issues in life: u know what u want, but not how to get it; or u don't know what u want. Solution: #GTD"

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

"When "this isn't right" changes to "this isn't optimal" in your vocabulary, you've moved up the food chain."

"Am working as hard as I can to find out what it's OK I'm NOT going to be dong, this weekend!"