David Allen's Blog, page 29

Episode #86: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Upgrade

I need to upgrade my computer. I need to upgrade my operating system. I need to upgrade this piece of software. I need to upgrade any of my technology, and any of my tools.

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Episode #85: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—What’s Really True?

Just say what's really true right now. Because you need to know what's the current reality so that you can then move from a ground base of reality. Not from some expectation of that, or generalization of that, or exaggeration of that.

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Episode #84: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Clean Up, Close Up

So look around your environment and say, how functional is it? How useful is it? How current is it in terms of the reality of these things and their meaning to you?

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Episode #83: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Get In Your Groove

Well, you may already have a groove, but I imagine your groove has been disturbed to a large degree by whatever has been going on in the world lately. And especially in turbulent times, it's going to disturb your groove. Get into a new one.

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Episode #82: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Laughter and Soap

At some point you just need to laugh, and you need to clean up.

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Episode #81: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—What Are You Learning From This?

In these kinds of times, that's actually in retrospect when we find out we've learned how to grow. We've expanded. We've stretched ourselves. We've challenged ourselves, we've had to look at things from whole new perspectives.

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Episode #80: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—I Am Unreasonably Joyful

Give yourself permission, for at least a minute, to just pretend that there are all kinds of things to be joyful about. So, be unreasonably joyful.

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Episode #79: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—The Two-minute Rule

Anything you can do in less than two minutes, if you need to do it at all then do it right then.

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Episode #78: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Clean Up Your Computer

Clean up your computer, if you haven't done this already It's like when you get your car washed, or your motorcycle washed, it drives better. Well very much the same thing with your computer.

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Episode #77: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Areas of Focus, Responsibility, and Interests

Revisit or create an overview of your Areas of Focus, Responsibility, and Interests. It's a different horizon of your commitments. You've got actions you need to take, and you've got projects you need to finish. But the reason you have actions, and projects is because they respond to or they relate to areas of focus and interests.

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