Quotes About Productivity

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.

The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities—what we do with, and how we manage our time.

It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.

When we set and achieve goals that are in our Center of Focus, we maximize the use of our time and effort. Interestingly, we find that as we do this over time, our Circle of Influence automatically increases. We find positive ways to influence more people and circumstances.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players. They're not coming from the paradigm of interdependence necessary to succeed in marriage, family, or organizational reality.

the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities.

Your crises and problems would shrink to manageable proportions because you would be thinking ahead, working on the roots, doing the preventive things that keep situations from developing into crises in the first place. In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

It's a principle you can see validated in your own life when you burn the candle at both ends to get more golden eggs and wind up sick or exhausted, unable to produce any at all; or when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.

As we become independent—proactive, centered in correct principles, value driven and able to organize and execute around the priorities in our life with integrity—we then can choose to become interdependent—capable of building rich, enduring, highly productive relationships with other people. As

The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. And

Highly effective people do not really manage time—they manage themselves.

Effectiveness lies in the balance.

There's so much to do. And there's never enough time. I feel pressured and hassled all day, every day, seven days a week. I've attended time management seminars and I've tried half a dozen different planning systems. They've helped some, but I still don't feel I'm living the happy, productive, peaceful life I want to live.

no se puede pensar en términos de eficiencia cuando se trata de personas. Se piensa en términos de efectividad con la gente y de eficiencia con las cosas.

if you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them, to stay with your priorities and organization?

el término «administración del tiempo» es en realidad una denominación poco afortunada; el desafío no consiste en administrar el tiempo, sino en administrarnos a nosotros mismos.

Only if network marketers manage themselves effectively can they go on to managing their teams effectively.

But effectively delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high-leverage activity there is.

3: Put First Things First).

Effectiveness lies in the balance. Excessive focus on P results in ruined health, worn-out machines, depleted bank accounts, and broken relationships. Too much focus on PC is like a person who runs three or four hours a day, bragging about the extra ten years of life it creates, unaware he's spending them running. Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs—the eternal student syndrome.