Quotes About Productivity

An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production.

Remarkable people are priority-driven. This is the secret of time mastery. Build your days around your priorities and you will play in rare air.

the thoughts you think and the actions you take in the first ten minutes after you wake up have a very marked effect on the rest of your day.

Sleep is like a drug," he explained. "Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality and opportunities.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. Those who use time wisely from an early age are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying lives.

work harder to produce better'—is seriously flawed. It isn't sustainable. It just leads to burnout. Exhaustion.

Most people try to be all things to all people and, in so doing, achieve nothing. Elite performers have a laser-like focus on their highest priorities and an acute awareness of the best uses of their time. In fact, they build their whole lives around the activities that offer them the highest return on investment. They are good at saying no.

Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it? Stop complaining about not being able to exercise given all that is on your plate these days. If you sleep seven hours a night and work eight hours every day, you still have more than sixty-three hours of free time every week to do all the things you want to do. This amounts to 252 hours every month and 3,024 hours every single year to spend on life's pursuits.

The things that get scheduled are the things that get done.

En una cultura de zombis cibernéticos adictos a la distracción y afligidos por la interrupción, el modo más sabio de garantizar la producción de resultados del más alto nivel en las áreas más importantes de vuestra vida profesional y personal es establecer una rutina matinal de gran calidad. La victoria comienza en vuestro principio. Y vuestras primeras horas son el momento en que se forjan los héroes.

peace and excite me to become a better man. Life's way too valuable to hang with people who don't get you. Who you just don't vibe with. Who have different values and lower standards than you do. Who have different Mindsets, Heartsets, Healthsets and Soulsets. It's a little miracle how powerfully and profoundly our influences and environments shape our productivity as well as our impact.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Stop managing your time and start managing your focus

Splendid. So every day I recommend you write out your Daily 5. That will focus you beautifully on your core priorities. Goal setting and committing your intentions to paper so that they become vivid and real versus

80 percent of the results you achieve in your life come from only 20 percent of the activities that occupy your time.

As you rise toward virtuosity, you'll become anxious about failure, threatened by a concern of not being good enough and insecure about blazing new paths. So, your amygdala—an almond-shaped mass of gray matter in the brain that detects fear—gets all fired up. And you begin to tear down the productivity you've built up. We all have a subconcious saboteur that lurks within our weakest selves, you know?

Those who have never been exposed to the principle that 'time mastery is life mastery' will never realize their enormous human potential.

Mess lowers your self-control as well as steals your cognitive bandwidth.

What is easiest to do is generally what is least valuable to do.

Direct all of your time to those activities that count. Enlightened people are priority driven.

P stands for Prioritize

La implementación: Durante los siguientes noventa días, prográmate para invertir los primeros noventa minutos de tu jornada laboral en la única actividad que, cuando la realices de un modo excelente, te permitirá dominar tu sector. Este período de noventa minutos debe estar completamente libre de cualquier ruido o interrupción. Coloca tus dispositivos electrónicos en una bolsa marcada «para mi Regla 90/90/1» y déjala

Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. The gardener and the farmer alike each has to keep the weeding process alive... It's like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful.

Esto me recuerda las palabras de Ben Franklin: «Ya tendrás tiempo de sobra para dormir cuando estés muerto».