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Alignment • Being Present • Commitment • Consistency • Continuous Improvement • Eliminate Distractions • Evening Routine • Exercise • Fitness • Focus • Goal Achievement • Goals • Gratitude • Habits • Happiness • Inspiration • Integrity • Manifesting • Meditation • Mindfulness • Mindset • Mission • Morning Routine • No Multitasking • Nutrition • Optimism • Overcoming Fear • Perfectionism • Personal Growth • Personal Responsibility • Planning • Positive Attitude • Prioritization • Productivity • Purpose • Self Discipline • Systems, Routines & Structure • Taking Action • Time-Blocking • Time Management • Values • Vision • Visualization • Willpower
Authors: Brian Tracy • Craig Ballantyne • Darren Hardy • Hal Elrod • James Clear • Jim Rohn
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“The moment you check email, read the news or surf social media, someone else’s priorities jump in front of yours.”
- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
“The moment you check email, read the news or surf social media, someone else’s priorities jump in front of yours.”
- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
“There are many things we want to accomplish in life, but there can be only one number one priority at a time. Know it, attack it, and focus on it every day.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
“There are many things we want to accomplish in life, but there can be only one number one priority at a time. Know it, attack it, and focus on it every day.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
“Spoiler alert: The perfect time, or enough time, will never magically appear.”
- From Time Management Essentials by Anna Dearmon Kornick
“Spoiler alert: The perfect time, or enough time, will never magically appear.”
- From Time Management Essentials by Anna Dearmon Kornick
“It’s never about having the time, it’s about making the time.”
- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
“It’s never about having the time, it’s about making the time.”
- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
“People don’t multitask because they’re good at multitasking. They multitask because they’re bad at focusing.”
- From Time Management Essentials by Anna Dearmon Kornick
“People don’t multitask because they’re good at multitasking. They multitask because they’re bad at focusing.”
- From Time Management Essentials by Anna Dearmon Kornick
“Make sure you are spending more than 50% of your time on what matters most!”
- From Mindset, Model and Marketing! by Tom Ferry
“Make sure you are spending more than 50% of your time on what matters most!”
- From Mindset, Model and Marketing! by Tom Ferry
“If it’s important enough, I’ll make the time. If not, I’ll make an excuse.”
- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
“If it’s important enough, I’ll make the time. If not, I’ll make an excuse.”
- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
“Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you’re saying no to something else.”
- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
“Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you’re saying no to something else.”
- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
“Embrace the fact that if you were powerful enough to create an overcommitted and overstretched life, you’re powerful enough to uncreate it.”
- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
“Embrace the fact that if you were powerful enough to create an overcommitted and overstretched life, you’re powerful enough to uncreate it.”
- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
“Here's a big one on time management. When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.”
“Here's a big one on time management. When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.”
“It’s not the hours you put in; it’s what you put in the hours that count.”
“It’s not the hours you put in; it’s what you put in the hours that count.”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
- Charles Darwin
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
- Charles Darwin
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for completion.” In other words, if you have no bumpers, boundaries, or non-negotiables built into your life, you will always find more work to do to fill the void and vacuum. You’ll mire yourself in busy work and perfectionism out of a perverse need to appear “busy” without realizing that you are wasting your time--your most precious and finite resource--on activities that don’t do anything to drive your business or life forward. Even worse, when you don’t have clear boundaries between your work and life, they start to bleed into each other, preventing you from being fully present in either one. When you’re at work, you feel guilty that they haven’t spent more time with your family and when you’re with your family, you feel guilty because you haven’t accomplished enough work.”
- From The Perfect Week Formula by Craig Ballantyne
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for completion.” In other words, if you have no bumpers, boundaries, or non-negotiables built into your life, you will always find more work to do to fill the void and vacuum. You’ll mire yourself in busy work and perfectionism out of a perverse need to appear “busy” without realizing that you are wasting your time--your most precious and finite resource--on activities that don’t do anything to drive your business or life forward. Even worse, when you don’t have clear boundaries between your work and life, they start to bleed into each other, preventing you from being fully present in either one. When you’re at work, you feel guilty that they haven’t spent more time with your family and when you’re with your family, you feel guilty because you haven’t accomplished enough work.”
- From The Perfect Week Formula by Craig Ballantyne
"A weekly plan is your compass for staying on track with your goals."
- From 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam
"A weekly plan is your compass for staying on track with your goals."
- From 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam
"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."
- From The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."
- From The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
“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
“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
“Research shows that beginning your day with a victory puts you in a positive mood. This morning momentum leads to more victories and continued progress throughout the day. You also win your health battles early in the morning. Making time to exercise and choosing the right foods for the first meal of the day will help you make better decisions all day long. The right decisions will give you more energy so that you will be more productive, mentally sharp, and free from fatigue—and even pain—all day long. Your first victory sets the proverbial ball rolling. This first win is also the biggest win and one that no one can take away from you. That’s why you must start early and control your morning, so that (barring external emergencies) your day will go exactly as planned.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
“Research shows that beginning your day with a victory puts you in a positive mood. This morning momentum leads to more victories and continued progress throughout the day. You also win your health battles early in the morning. Making time to exercise and choosing the right foods for the first meal of the day will help you make better decisions all day long. The right decisions will give you more energy so that you will be more productive, mentally sharp, and free from fatigue—and even pain—all day long. Your first victory sets the proverbial ball rolling. This first win is also the biggest win and one that no one can take away from you. That’s why you must start early and control your morning, so that (barring external emergencies) your day will go exactly as planned.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
“Time is the most precious commodity we have. Therefore, how we manage it has the most profound effect on how our lives turn out. Either you run your day or your day will run you. It’s really a matter of deciding to be in charge. When you work, work; and when you play; play.”
- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn
“Time is the most precious commodity we have. Therefore, how we manage it has the most profound effect on how our lives turn out. Either you run your day or your day will run you. It’s really a matter of deciding to be in charge. When you work, work; and when you play; play.”
- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn
“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
“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