“Every day you must take action that is congruent with your big goals and dreams.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“Either you run the day or it runs you.”

- From The Jim Rohn Guides Complete Set

“If you plant the wrong things, you'll harvest the wrong results.”

- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett

“What's the one action that moves the needle more than 100 other actions? What's the one choice that renders 1000 other choices irrelevant?”

- James Clear

“To do great things, you must do fewer things.”

- Sharran Srivatsaa

“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”

- H. L. Hunt

“Make sure that you have a clear goal in mind and prioritize your actions around achieving the goal. What do I need to be doing more of? What do I need to be doing less of? What habits do I need to start? What is one habit you could start tomorrow that would improve how you performed in your personal and your professional life? What habits do I need to stop?”

- From Tom Ferry: Mindset, Model, and Marketing

"Invest time each week to reflect, strategize, and set your priorities for the next seven days."

- From Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy

“Here’s one way to approach it: Push the ultimate desired outcome off into an unknowable future horizon then break the big goal down into smaller chunks. Identify THE next most important little domino that needs to get knocked over. Set a challenging but realistic target for THAT goal, then figure out the PROCESS you need to engage in on a daily basis to hit that goal and voila! You’re an instant success as you show up and take the next baby step, remembering to celebrate the small wins as you create a feeling of continuous achievement. Remember: We want that inspiring, jumbo-huge goal to serve as a RUDDER pointing us in the right direction as we practice staying fully engaged in one moment after the other. That’s much better than using our unrealistic goal as a measuring stick that depletes our energy as we worry about why we’re not already at our goal.”

- Brian Johnson, Heroic.us

“Set into motion the actions necessary to achieve the things you currently claim are important, yet keep being put off.”

- From Harris Rules by Tim and Julie Harris

“What is the one thing that you need to do now that you have put off or resisted doing? Whatever it is, do it now. By taking the actions you need to take when you need to take them, you build the discipline necessary to succeed.”  

- From The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need by Anthony Iannarino

“Your success starts in the morning. Plan your day. Get up early. Work on your number one priority in life before anything else. Add more structure to your day and you will have more freedom in your life for your family, friends, and hobbies.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“Busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is shorthand for “not important enough”. It means you would rather be doing something else that you consider more important. You don’t find the time to do something; you make the time to do things. Make the time to do the things you want to do and then do them.”

- Debbie Millman

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

- Peter Drucker

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Time management is really life management, personal management, management of yourself. People who value themselves highly allocate their time carefully. They give their time usage a lot of thought. When you love your life, you love every minute of it. You are very careful about misusing or wasting any of the precious minutes and hours of each day.”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“The people who achieve extraordinary results don’t achieve them by working more hours. They achieve them by getting more done in the hours they work.”

- From The ONE Thing by Gary Keller

“What’s the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

- From The ONE Thing by Gary Keller

“Every time you check your email or another message service, you’re basically saying ‘Does any random person need my time right now?’ And if you respond right away, you’re sending another signal to both them and to yourself: ‘I’ll stop what I’m doing to put other people’s priorities ahead of mine no matter who they are or what they want.’ Spelled out, this sounds insane. But instant-response insanity is our culture’s default behavior.”

- From Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

“The first discipline is to focus your finest efforts on the one or two goals that will make all the difference, instead of giving mediocre effort to dozens of goals. Execution starts with focus.“

- From The Four Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling