Quotes from Laura Vanderkam

It is not a terrible thing to love the world, knowing that the world is always passing and irrecoverable, to be known only in loss. To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain." Holding

Ignore, minimize, or outsource everything else. I asked all my time-makeover guinea pigs to identify activities they wanted to get off their plates, and to fill in the blank for the sentence "I spend way too much time on ____." If you keep an accurate log of your 168 hours, you will likely be surprised by the number of hours you spend on certain things.

when you focus on what you do best, on what brings you the most satisfaction, there is plenty of space for everything.

Knock a few of these easy items off first, then look for ways to minimize more complicated time traps.

Fill bits of time with bits of joy. This was an exercise from Chapter 8. Make lists of things that make you happy or that you find meaningful, and that take 30 minutes or less, or even less than 10 minutes.

There's little point, though, in being too scattered to master something, or in spending much time on activities in which you can't excel.

The way I see it, anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.

El dolor puro y completo es tan imposible como la dicha pura y completa".

Multitasking is, more often than not, inefficient single-tasking.

Les dije que debían lograr que su vida fuera memorable, que hicieran algo memorable todos los días porque ésa era la única manera de impedir que el tiempo se les escapara de entre las manos.

Here's what I think is the difference," she says. "I know I'm in charge of me. Everything that I do, every minute I spend is my choice." Daytner chooses to spend those minutes on the three things she does best: nurturing her business, nurturing her family, and nurturing herself. "If I'm not spending my time wisely, I fix it," she says. "Even if it's just quiet time.

Results-Only Work Environment, a program pioneered at Best Buy a few years ago that lets people work wherever, whenever, and for however long, as long as their work gets done.

En efecto, aprender a aprovechar las mañanas es algo que, en nuestro distraído mundo, puede marcar la diferencia entre el logro y el caos.

And so I have begun to see the benefits of getting a jump on the day. We all have 168 hours a week, but not all hours are equally suited to all things. I certainly noticed this when I started tracking my time for my book on time management, 168 Hours. As I kept time

Harsh as this sounds, if you're not in the right job—a job that is moving you toward where you want to be in life—then you're wasting almost all the time you're spending at work.

you have a dedicated assistant, or one you share with one or two other people, great. Find one who isn't just able to handle administrative tasks, but excels at the problem-solving part of the job and sees it as his mission to advance you.

the reality is that the best outsourcing is not about getting rid of work you don't want to do. If it's truly dumb work, maybe it doesn't have to be done at all. Maybe processes can be automated.

if you want to get the most out of your 168 hours, you need a work team and a home team, all focused on their core competencies, so you can focus on yours.

Second, we need to savor moments as they come. A lot of time and life management is mental. The human brain easily wanders and it wanders more to worries than to happy musings on what a blessed life you have. Such ruminations steal happiness.

Before anyone complains that they cannot fathom weekly excursions to another continent, let me clarify some definitions: A big adventure means something that requires a few hours—think half a weekend day. A little adventure could take just an hour or so, and fit on a lunch break or a weekday evening, as long as it is something out of the ordinary.

la fuerza de voluntad, al igual que los músculos, se fatiga si se usa demasiado.

This conscious decision to hunt for the positive can help combat the common tendency to focus on dark moments, the sort that lead us to stormy conclusions about whether life with a big career and a family is doable. Sometimes things look bleak, but life is not all black-and-white.

This requires incredible mindfulness. It requires deciding, in a busy life, to give people the attention they deserve. That is a splendid choice; in general, people are an excellent use of time.

por lo general vuelvo a mi escritorio y, en lugar de iniciar mi día de trabajo, me siento tentada a servirme una taza de café y navegar sin rumbo por internet.