285 Quotes by David Allen

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

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.

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.

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.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

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.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.