Quotes from Brian Tracy

15. Technology is a terrible master: Take back your time from enslaving technological addictions. Learn to often turn devices off and leave them off.

Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task that is before them. They force themselves to eat that frog, whatever it is. As a result, they accomplish vastly more than the average person and are much happier as a result.

16. Technology is a wonderful servant: Use your technological tools to confront yourself with what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important.

17. Focus your attention: Stop the interruptions and distractions that interfere with completing your most important tasks.

18. Slice and dice the task: Break large, complex tasks down into bite-sized pieces, and then do just one small part of the task to get started.

Madam it's not how long we live, but what we have created during that life. What have we left to the world? Is it a little more beautiful, a little more thoughtful, and a little kinder because of us? It is what will stay on regardless of whether you die at 27 or 80.

19. Create large chunks of time: Organize your days around large blocks of time so you can concentrate for extended periods on your most important tasks.

20. Develop a sense of urgency: Make a habit of moving fast on your key tasks. Become known as a person who does things quickly and well.

Long term thinking improves short term decision making

Fear and self doubt is the enemy of human potential

21. Single handle every task: Set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task, and then work without stopping until the job is 100 percent complete. This is the real key to high performance and maximum personal productivity.

How shall we live in order to be happy?" Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself—and then to follow where your answer leads you—will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

Go through your life regularly and practice "creative abandonment": Consciously determine the activities that you are going to discontinue so that you have more time to spend on those tasks that can really make a difference to your future.

Si tu objetivo no está por escrito, no es nada más que una vaga fantasía.

La disciplina efectiva es la voluntad de obligarte a pagar el precio, y hacer lo que sabes que debes hacer, cuando debes hacerlo, te apetezca o no.

Una de las reglas más importantes de la eficacia personal es la del 10/90. Dice que el primer 10 por ciento del tiempo que ocupa planificando y organizando su trabajo, antes de empezar, le va a permitir ahorrar hasta el 90 por ciento del tiempo que ocupará en hacer el trabajo una vez que lo ha empezado.

The ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

Resiste la tentación de gastar tiempo leyendo cosas que no son de valor inmediato o de relevancia para tu vida y trabajo.

There is also a direct relationship between the amount of control you feel you have and how positive you feel. The more you feel that you have a high "sense of control" in the important areas of your life, the more positive and happy you are in everything you do.

Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete. In

Planificar es traer el futuro al presente para poder hacer ahora algo al respecto.

Everything you are or ever will be, will be as a result of the way you think. If you change the quality of your thinking, you change the quality of your life.