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
Вы не можете выиграть игру, правил которой не знаете
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 pict...
Don’t just do something. Stand there. —Rochelle Myer
You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you.
It’s the nature of human experience, which is always in some form of motion, to veer off course—sometimes in major, but consistently in minor, ways.
When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they’re relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful...
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. —J. Bronowski
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. —Elbert Hubbard
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. —Saint Francis of Assisi
But if you don’t decide what needs to be done about your secretary’s birthday, because it’s not that important right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effec...
Almost every project could be done better, and an infinite quantity of information is now available that could make that happen.
Welcome to the real-life experience of knowledge work, and a profound operational principle: you have to think about your stuff more than you realize but not as much as you’re afraid you might. As Pet...
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henri Bergson
Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
There are no interruptions, really—there are simply mismanaged occurrences.
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. —Dee Hock
Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is,
Merely having thoughts is one thing. Consciously feeding them is quite another. You are powerful all the time, by way of your attention and intention. The question is, Toward what are you pointing tha...
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. —WILL ROGERS