Quotes About Balance

Similarly, when you are away at a conference, an off-site meeting, or on vacation, you need to expect that it will require one hour to get caught up for each day you are out of the office!

is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world.

More goals may not be necessary for you now—you need comfort with the ones you've already put in motion, and the confidence that you can execute elegantly on any new ones.

you don't manage priorities—you have them.

Too much information creates the same result as too little:

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henri Bergson If

When you're not sure where you're going or what's really important to you, you'll never know when enough is enough.

merely become an everyday part of keeping one's mental and physical environment in good order.

There are only so many hours per day, even as we push back the frontiers of sleeplessness. There are only so many people with whom we can maintain serious connections

It is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world.

Horizontal control maintains coherence across all the activities in which you are involved.

you have to think about your stuff more than you realize but not as much as you're afraid you might.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. —Peter F.

The maintenance of life and the pursuit of happiness are not two separate issues. —Ayn Rand

There is too much distraction at the day-to-day, hour-to-hour level of commitments to allow for appropriate focus on the higher levels.

Bailing water in a leaky boat diverts energy from rowing the boat.

In karate there is an image that's used to define the position of perfect readiness: "mind like water." Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond. How does the water respond? The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm. It doesn't overreact or underreact.

Clearing the mind and being flexible are key.

most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Getting Things Done is not simply about getting things done. It's about being appropriately engaged with your work and life.

There are few people who can (or even should) expect to code everything based upon its priority, or who can maintain some predetermined list of to-dos that the first telephone call or instant message or interruption from their boss or spouse won't totally

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. Water

Anyone with the need to be accountable to deal with more than what he or she can complete in the moment has the opportunity to do so more easily and elegantly than in the mind.

Organizations must create a culture in which it is acceptable that everyone has more to do than he or she can do, and in which it is sage to renegotiate agreements about what everyone is not doing.