Quotes About Commitment

Cuando una persona dice trataré esta disculpándose su fracaso por anticipado.

Decision. You must make a decision this very day, this very moment, that you are going to do whatever it takes and overcome any obstacle to become excellent.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

13. Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave town for a month, and work as if you had to get your major task completed before you left.

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.

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.

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.

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

En el Diccionario del diablo, Ambrose Bierce escribió que «la definición de fanatismo es redoblar tus esfuerzos después de que tu objetivo haya sido olvidado».

concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely

En lo que respecta a tu meta más importante, el fracaso ¡no es una opción!

La expresión preparar mucho no existe.

Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life. Say no graciously but firmly to avoid agreeing to something against your will. Say it early and say it often. Remember that you have no spare time. As we say, "Your dance card is full.

accept complete responsibility for yourself, your life, and your results, with no excuses

The first law of success is concentration—to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left. WILLIAM MATHEWS

What this means is that you will never be caught up. Get that wishful idea out of your mind. All you can hope for is to be on top of your most important responsibilities. The others will just have to wait.

When you get into this business, you will make a living. But when the business gets into you, you will make a great life.

Even worse, time that you waste at work often has to be taken away from your family.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

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.

One of the keys to your living a wonderful life, having a successful career, and feeling terrific about yourself is to develop the habit of starting and finishing important jobs.

Make work appointments with yourself and then discipline yourself to keep them. Set aside thirty-, sixty-, and ninety-minute time segments that you use to work on and complete important tasks. Many highly productive people schedule specific activities in preplanned time slots all day long. These people build their work lives around accomplishing key tasks one at a time.