Quotes About Efficiency

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early

aquello que podrías hacer y dedicarte a hacer aquello que debes hacer. Consiste en reconocer que no todas las cosas importan igual y en encontrar aquello que más importa. Es una manera de vincular más estrechamente lo que uno hace con lo que uno desea. Se basa en darse cuenta de que obtener resultados extraordinarios viene determinado directamente

As Henry David Thoreau said, "It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

Here's what I found out: We overthink, overplan, and overanalyze our careers, our businesses, and our lives; that long hours are neither virtuous nor healthy; and that we usually succeed in spite of most of what we do, not because of it. I discovered that we can't manage time, and that the key to success isn't in all the things we do but in the handful of things we do well.

There is an art to clearing away the clutter and focusing on what matters most. It is simple and it is transferable. It just requires the courage to take a different approach." —George Anders

While to-dos serve as a useful collection of our best intentions, they also tyrannize us with trivial, unimportant stuff that we feel obligated to get done—because it's on our list. Which is why most of us have a love-hate relationship with our to-dos.

Achievers operate differently. They have an eye for the essential.

The Focusing Question collapses all possible questions into one: "What's the ONE Thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

If everyone has the same number of hours in a day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? How do they do more, achieve more, earn more, have more? If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others? The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach. They go small.

Most people struggle to comprehend how many things don't need to be done, if they would just start by doing the right thing.

You have only so much time and energy, so when you spread yourself out, you end up spread thin. You want your achievements to add up, but that actually takes subtraction, not addition: You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

hours spent checking off a to-do list and ending the day with a full trash can and a clean desk are not virtuous and have nothing to do with success.

So when you think about success, shoot for the moon. The moon is reachable if you prioritize everything and put all of your energy into accomplishing the most important thing. Getting extraordinary results is all about creating a domino effect in your life.

The Focusing Question can direct you to your ONE Thing in the different areas of your life. Simply reframe the Focusing Question by inserting your area of focus. You can also include a time frame—such as "right now" or "this year"—to give your answer the appropriate level of immediacy, or "in five years" or "someday" to find a big-picture answer that points you at outcomes to aim for.

So how do you make The ONE Thing part of your daily routine? How do you make it strong enough to get extraordinary results at work and in the other areas of your life?

Start each day by asking, "What's the ONE Thing I can do today for [whatever you want] such that by doing it everything else will be easier or even unnecessary?" When you do this, your direction will become clear.

It's like compound interest with a turbocharger.

make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest.

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it's at full strength on what matters most.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The problem with trying to do too much

the ONE Thing you can do this week such that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary?

The brain makes up 1/50th of our body mass but consumes a staggering 1/5th of the calories we burn for energy.

con un propósito, con una prioridad y con productividad, sabiendo que puedes y debes evitar el arrepentimiento, poniendo LO ÚNICO en lo más alto de tus pensamientos y en lo más alto de tu calendario

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do." —Francine Jay