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Posts tagged David Allen

Feb 10

Your People are Your Daily

They aren’t “a project.”

I must start this posting by saying that I greatly admire the gentleman I’m going to quote shortly. I’ve read all his books, and have implemented several of the suggestions he makes within his expertise of GTD productivity, blogging about them extensively in past years. However this beginning to his recent newsletter sent up such a red flag with me:

I’ve got some help for David Allen.

‘Chunking work’ into projects can be a good idea ~like when you do your income taxes. But you can’t chunk your people.

Posted at 8:17 AM Tagged: The Daily Five MinutesprojectsDavid Allen

Oct 7
“I consider myself both a relatively lazy person as well as someone who is easily distracted by bright shiny activities that attract my attention. Of course I discovered years ago that if I let either or both of those tendencies hold too much sway, my life would veer in an unproductive direction. And, worst of all, because things would start to go, well, not so well, I would begin to lose my freedom to goof off and my ability to run down cool, creative rabbit trails! So some of the best things I have done for myself are to create blinders and focusing tricks that keep my attention engaged with the best things at the right times, so I don’t have to work so hard at not working hard.” David Allen in his recent GTD e-letter
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