Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is,
Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. —Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. Responding inappropriately to your e-mail, your thoughts about what you need to do, your children, or your boss wil...
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There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it’s getting done.
There are no interruptions, really—there are simply mismanaged occurrences.
THE PURPOSE OF this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to move toward more elegant and productive activity. In order to earn that freedom,...
Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.
I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin.
Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because...
Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is m...
Most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.
We need to transform all the stuff we’ve attracted and accumulated into a clear inventory of meaningful actions, projects, and usable information.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.
It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current realit...
Interestingly, one of the biggest problems with most people’s personal management systems is that they blend a few actionable things with a large amount of data and material that has value but no acti...
Getting things done requires two basic components: defining (1) what done means (outcome) and (2) what doing looks like (action).
You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler
The big problem is that your mind keepsreminding you of things when you can't doanything about them. It has no sense of past or future. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do...