David Allen Messages

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

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

The better you get, the better you better get.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

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

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.

You can do anything, but you can't do everything

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!