"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

"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

"Plan your week, and then work your plan."

- From See You at the Top by Zig Ziglar

"A well-organized week creates a well-organized life."

- From Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

"Weekly planning is the key to deliberate living."

- From Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."

- From The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher

“The average person lives a reactive life. They get up. They fight to make it to work on time. That’s the extent of their planning. They haven’t looked any further ahead. They figure that when they get to work, then they’ll figure out something to do, or worse, a way to simply get through the day. They wait to be told what to do or react to whatever emergencies are thrown their way.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“Growth doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of intentional effort and consistent progress. You must define how you want to grow, then establish a plan to help you get there.”

- From Die Empty by Todd Henry

“The power of a plan is not that it will get you there. The power of a plan is that it will get you started. It’s easy to assume that you need to put together the plan that will get you there—in other words, the right plan. The plan that will work. No. The point is not to come up with the brilliant blueprint that is guaranteed to take you all the way to the finish line. The point is simply to come up with a plan that will get you out of the starting gate. It’s not even that your starting plan doesn’t necessarily get you there—it for sure won’t get you there, at least not the exact plan you conceive at first. Nobody has that degree of perfect precision in long-range planning, and there are too many variables and surprises along the way that will require adjustments to the plan. You have to start with a plan, but the plan you start with will not be the plan that gets you there.“

- From The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

“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

“If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

“...the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meeting and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”

- W. H. Murray

“Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage—and eliminate negative emotions… First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose in life; therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action. Second: I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality; therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture.”

- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

“First you see it, then you believe it, and then you create it. But it starts with creating your vision.”

- From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod

“The good thing about principles is that they make life easy. I have heard it said that when someone bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.”

- From The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

“Ask yourself: is what I’m doing today getting me closer to where I want to be tomorrow?”

- Zig Ziglar

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

- Brian Tracy

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” 

- W. P. Kinsella

“Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it is the realization that we can.”

- From The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor