Quotes About Time

Strategizing boosts efficiency; planning your toughest work for the time when you have the most energy means a task might take one hour instead of two.

You have to think about each day's landscape—both workdays and days off—and where there might be spots of usable time. You become a general, surveying the battlefield. What can move? What can't? What logistical problems must be solved as you march through your hours?

A mucha de la gente que siempre llega tarde le gusta complacer a otros.

La gente que llega tarde suele ser increíblemente optimista.

Calling something "work" doesn't make it a more noble use of time than anything else. Work that doesn't advance you toward the life you want is still wasted time. You will never get those hours back, and we only get so many. Wrote Shakespeare in Richard II, "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I would argue that, over the last 40 years, as a higher proportion of parents' time in two-parent families has been compensated at market rates, parental time overall has become more valuable. Consequently, parents allocate this valuable time differently during their nonworking hours than people did in the past.

Over time, the way parents have allocated their non-market-work hours has shifted considerably. The biggest change in the new home economics has been time devoted to housework. This has fallen precipitously—almost in half over 40 years.

autobiographical narrative running through our brains, is really three selves. There is the "anticipating self," who looked forward to that ice skating trip, the "experiencing self," who would do it, and the "remembering self" (a concept Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman popularized in his research), who would look back fondly on the memory of those kids zipping around on the ice.

Plan on Fridays Expectations are infinite. Time is finite. We are always choosing. Choose well.

Aparentemente, saborear va de la mano con la sensación de que el tiempo pasa con más lentitud".

26. Es bueno usar el tiempo en la gente.

The majority of people who claim to be overworked work less than they think they do, and many of the ways people work are extraordinarily inefficient. Calling something "work" does not make it important or necessary.

As with the principals tracking their time, it is this second step, envisioning how a schedule could look, and the third step, holding yourself daily to this design, that leads to time freedom.

Constantly minding time is more challenging than letting it slip unnoticed into the past. It is also never done.

Rich memories can expand time both as they are being created and in the rearview mirror.

This is all true, and yet not really an argument against ownership. It is easy to believe our own excuses, particularly if they're good ones, but in a world of 7 billion people, there is always someone facing Y who is doing X. All of us have to assess the plot of life we are allotted every twenty-four hours and figure out how we can make the most of what we've been given.

Calling something "work" doesn't make it a more noble use of time than anything else. Work that doesn't advance you toward the life you want is still wasted time.

I find this doable if I "plan tight, then plan light"—a mantra that many Tranquility by Tuesday participants reported finding helpful. This means designating times on Monday and Tuesday for all of the week's high-priority tasks. The minutes at the beginning of the week will feel a little full, but this is balanced by leaving the schedule more fluid later in the week. Any must-dos and want-to-dos should

Resilient schedules help us see time as abundant, not scarce.

Sociologists have studied these questions as well. It turns out that there is a fundamental flaw in the data used to support the claim that we suffer from time poverty and overwork: we lie.

No comiences a usar tu tiempo libre sin un plan porque, entonces, lo perderás mientras se te ocurre qué hacer", nos recomienda Huckabee.

Life won't always work as anyone wishes. That's the reason for the next chapter, which talks about creating a resilient schedule. An ideal schedule will also have to change over time as life changes. But if you know the ideal schedule, at least for now, then you can make decisions with that schedule in mind. As your experienced time gets closer to your ideal time, you'll be happier. That's a great thing to experience—as many times per week as possible.

Looking forward to the next week, when could this happen? List at least three times. What obstacles might prevent you from doing this activity three times a week? How can you address these challenges? Implementation questions: What activity did you choose to focus on three times this week? Did you spend more time on your chosen activity this week than in previous weeks? If so, how much more time did you spend on it? What was the impact of aiming to do this activity three times per week?

We keep our houses somewhat clean, but not as clean as we did in 1965, when stay-at-home moms spent, on average, 37.4 hours per week spiffing up their abodes (and married moms overall, including employed ones, spent 34.5 hours on such chores).