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  1. Capture
  2. Clarify
  3. Plan
  4. Organize
  5. Reflect : get clear/current/creative
  6. Act

Tips

  • 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

Think

  • Why
  • What is the next action

Choose action in moment : Four-critera model

  1. Context
  2. Time available
  3. Energy available
  4. Priority

Horizons

  1. Life
  2. Long-term visions
  3. 1/2 years goals
  4. Areas of focus and accountability
  5. Current projects
  6. Current actions

Quotes

  • 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)