Most people have never thought through how they’re going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance. I never work on Saturday. I don’t ever work on Sunday either. If you make that decision on a macro level once, when all the incremental decisions arise on an incremental basis, life is easier.

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In a company you have a lot of different businesses. As a manager you ask, “Which products are we going to invest our capital into?” It’s called the resource allocation process. In our personal lives we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I’m a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

– Clayton Christensen

What is it about human perception that allows “yes” and “no” to be considered as valid responses to situations? Affirmation and negation are both illusions. In fact, they are both primary causes of illusion, since acceptance and rejection of conditions leads to disfigurement and distortion. By framing conditions in terms of a decision to appropriate them or not into thinking and behavior, something vital is stripped from them.