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

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 succed 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)