Getting Things Done
From David Allen’s Getting Things Done:
I consider “work,” in its most universal sense, as meaning anything that you want or need to be different than it currently is.
- you don’t manage five minutes and wind up with six;
- you don’t manage information overload—otherwise you’d walk into a library and die, or the first time you connected to the Web, or even opened a phone book, you’d blow up; and
- you don’t manage priorities—you have them.
There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.