- Capture
- Clarify
- Plan
- Organize
- Reflect : get clear/current/creative
- Act
- 2 minutes : if the task is shoter than 2 minutes, do it right now
- once a year : purge/clean : all the company should empty their stuff, undone unsorted
- 30 minutes : chunk of task, uninterupted work
- Brain-gone list for easy and quick win
- Identify desired outcomes, projects and next actions about the circustances (instead of keeping worries in your head)
- Defining what done means and what doing looks like
- If you don't have a good system for storing bad ideas, you probably don't have one for filling good ones either
- Why
- What is the next action
- Context
- Time available
- Energy available
- Priority
- Life
- Long-term visions
- 1/2 years goals
- Areas of focus and accountability
- Current projects
- Current actions
- Fanaticism consits of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim (George Santayana)
- Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have (Emilie Chartier)
- Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them (Lin Yutang)
- Your best thoughts about your work won't happen while you're at work
- Success is learning to deal with plan B (Unknown)
- There are no interruptions, there are only mismanaged inputs
- The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have (Charles Schwab)
- If your boat is sinking, you really don't care in which direction it's pointed
- Pick battles big enought to matter, small enought to win (Jonathan Kozol)
- The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster (Rosabeth Moss Kanter)
- Talk do not cook rice (Chinese proverb)
- Your mind is for having ideas not for holding them
- Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible (Saint Francis of Assisi)