# David Allen

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Decision Fatigue Is Not a Character Flaw, It's Architecture

🎙️ Somewhere between 4 and 7 PM, simple questions start to feel heavy, patience runs thin, and small frustrations trigger outsized reactions. Dr. Pedram Shojai calls it decision fatigue and argues it is not a character flaw but a measurable, neurobiological result of how modern life spends your cog…

Dr. David Allen on the Lukan Authorship of Hebrews

Episode 245 is my interview with Dr. David Allen on the Lukan Authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews. This is a fascinating discussion, and if his hypothesis is correct, it has significant implications on how we understand the Gospel of Luke and Acts.  Dr. Allen’s Website: https://www.drdavidall…

80/20 Rule: More Is on the Other Side of Less

Daily Boost Podcast 80/20 Rule: More Is on the Other Side of Less November 3, 2026 | Episode 5582 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com. Episode Description Eighty percent of what you're doing today is messing with you. You're spending y…

Energy Storage plant in Rathoe Co. Carlow w/ Doctor David Allen - 02/11/26

As KCLR has reported on extensively since the news broke back in June, Net Zero Energy Ireland wishes to develop a 600 MegaWatt Long Duration Energy Storage plant at the Rathrush Green Energy Park, just outside the village of Rathoe in County Carlow. The plant is projected to displace 180 thousand …

How Much of ‘You’ should be in your Preaching?

In this Preaching Coach podcast episode, Dr. David Allen explains “periautologia,” the rhetorical practice of speaking about oneself, and asks how much personal reference a preacher should include in a sermon. Using Paul’s letter to the Philippians, Dr. Allen shows that Paul often uses self-referen…

The Human Side of CX: Why Understanding People Drives Business Growth

Customer experience is shaped by more than data, processes, and technology; it depends on understanding the humans behind every interaction. When organisations integrate human experience into customer and employee strategies, they can build deeper trust, strengthen relationships, and create lasting…

Ep. 387: Horizontal and Vertical Control

You need to control commitments, projects, and actions in two ways--horizontally and vertically. Horizontal control maintains coherence across all the activities in which you are involved. Vertical control, in contrast, manages thinking, development, and coordination of individual topics and projec…

Ep. 13 - Procrastination: Why It Makes Sense—and What Can Change (Part1)

How much energy are we spending trying to avoid spending energy? Procrastination doesn't just cost us the things we don't get done. It can consume enormous amounts of time, attention, and emotional energy as we worry, negotiate with ourselves, and struggle to take action. But what if we're not simp…

David Allen, Getting Things Done

David Allen is an author, consultant, international lecturer, and founder and chairman of the David Allen Company. He is widely recognized as the world's leading authority on personal and organizational productivity. His thirty years of pioneering research, coaching and education of some of the wor…

A Critical Review of David Allen's Liberating Romans from Reformed Captivity

Dr. Sean Cole provides a critical review of Dr. David Allen's new book Liberating Romans from Reformed Captivity.  Sean's primary critique is that Dr. Allen makes sweeping assertions and claims, but does not back them up with sound exegetical reasoning from the text. Instead, Allen quotes from oth…