Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.

want you to know that everything I propose is easy to do. It involves no new skills at all. You already know how to focus, how to write things down, how to decide outcomes and actions, and how to review options and make choices.

Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what’s being presented—challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That creates engagement, which is the key to understanding.

It’s also needed in schools, where the vast majority of our kids are still not being taught how to process information, how to focus on outcomes, or what actions to take to make them happen.

Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. —David Kekich

You often need to make it up in your mind before you can make it happen in your life.

you won’t see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

that focus instantly creates ideas and thought patterns you wouldn’t have had otherwise.

Frequently, projects and situations that have begun to feel scattered and blurred grow clearer when someone brings it back home by asking, “What are we really trying to accomplish here?”