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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Also by David Allen
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making It Easy to Take It Easy
PART I: CLEAR YOUR HEAD FOR CREATIVITY or Getting the Loose Ends to Leave You Alone
1. Cleaning up creates new directions
2. You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you’re not doing
3. Knowing your commitments creates better choices of new ones
4. Getting to where you’re going requires knowing where you are
5. Infinite opportunity is utilized by finite possibility
6. Two commitments in your head create stress and failure
7. Priorities function only at the conscious level
8. Closing open loops releases energy
9. If it’s on your mind, it’s probably not getting done
10. Creativity shows up when there’s space
11. The deeper the channel, the greater the flow
12. Worry is a waste
13. You are not your work
PART II: FOCUS PRODUCTIVELY or What’s the Point of a Point of View?
14. For more clarity, look from a higher place
15. You won’t see how to do it until you see yourself doing it
16. Working hard enough is impossible
17. Energy follows thought
18. The clearer your purpose, the more ways to fulfill it
19. Best is much better than good
20. A change in focus equals a change in result
21. Perspective is the most valuable commodity on the planet
22. You have to think about your stuff more than you think
23. You don’t have to think about your stuff as much as you’re afraid you might
24. If you know what you’re doing, efficiency is the only improvement opportunity
25. Only one thing on your mind is “in the zone.”
26. The value of a future goal is the present change it fosters
PART III: CREATE STRUCTURES THAT WORK or It’s Hard to Stay on Track Without Rails
27. Stability on one level opens creativity on another
28. Form and function must match for maximum productivity
29. Your system has to be better than your mind for your mind to let go
30. Response ability improves viability
31. Your system is only as good as its weakest link
32. The effectiveness of your system is inversely proportional to your awareness of it
33. Function follows form
34. You can’t win a game you haven’t defined
35. Whenever two or more are responsible for something, usually nobody is
36. Prime your principles instead of policing your policies
37. Use your mind to thinkabout your work, instead of thinkingof it
38. You are thinking more valuably than you may think
39. The necessity to plan and organize is inversely proportional to your perceived resources
PART IV: RELAX AND GET IN MOTION or How to Be Where the Action Is
40. You’re the only one playing your game
41. Too controlled is out of control
42. The better you get, the better you’d better get
43. Trusting your action choice requires multilevel self-management
44. Your power is proportional to your ability to relax
45. Surprises, expected, are no surprise
46. The longer your horizon, the smoother your moves
47. You speed up by slowing down
48. You don’t have time to do any project
49. Small things, done consistently, create major impact
50. You have to do something to know something
51. It’s easier to move when you’re in motion
52. The biggest successes come from the most failures
PART V: REMIND YOURSELF OF THE FUNDAMENTALS or Common Sense Isn’t That Common
Afterword
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