Quotes About Productivity

rule, once again, is that every minute spent in planning and creating checklists will save you ten minutes in execution and getting the job done. This

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.

On the other hand, coming into work at the last moment, reading the newspaper, drinking coffee, and socializing with your coworkers may seem fun and enjoyable in the short term but inevitably leads to lack of promotion, underachievement, and frustration in the long term.

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.

una actividad D es algo que puedes delegar en otra persona. La regla es que debes delegar todo lo posible en otras personas con el objeto de liberar más tiempo para que puedas involucrarte en las actividades A.

Una actividad E es algo que deberías eliminar por completo. Después de todo, solo puedes tener tu tiempo bajo control si dejas de lado esas cosas que ya no es necesario que hagas.

Siempre tenemos tiempo para todo, si lo usamos bien.

Under the pressure of deadlines, often self-created through procrastination, people suffer greater stress, make more mistakes, and have to redo more tasks than under any other conditions.

El hecho es que el tiempo que se requiere para completar un trabajo importante suele ser el mismo que se requiere para hacer un trabajo sin importancia.

The number one reason why some people get more work done faster is because they are absolutely clear about their goals and objectives and they don't deviate from them.

Your frog is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it. It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results at the moment.

What are your highest value activities? What can you, and only you do, that if done well, can make a real difference?

It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters.

The fact is that your productivity begins to decline after eight or nine hours of work. For this reason, working long hours into the night, although it is sometimes necessary, means that you are usually producing less and less in more and more time. The more tired you become, the worse the quality of your work will be and the more mistakes you will make. At a certain point, you can reach "the wall" and simply be unable to continue, like a battery that is run down.

Time management is really life management, personal management. It is really taking control of the sequence of events. Time management is taking control over what you do next.

The third key is that goals must be time bounded, with schedules, deadlines, and subdeadlines. In fact, there are no unrealistic goals; there are merely unrealistic deadlines.

A great life, a great career is built by performing one task at a time, quickly and well, and then going on to the next task.

El 20 por ciento de los mejores vendedores ganan el 80 por ciento del dinero, y el 80 por ciento de los peores vendedores ganan sólo el 20 por ciento del dinero».

Reserve tiempo para terminar tareas importantes cada día. Planifique anticipadamente su agenda diaria. Identifique los relativamente pocos trabajos pequeños que es indispensable hacer inmediatamente en la mañana. Después ocúpese directamente de las grandes tareas y no pare hasta terminarlas. Boardroom Reports

La delegación tiene una variedad de beneficios y ventajas. La delegación te permite ampliar tu ámbito de trabajo desde lo que puedes hacer a lo que puedes controlar o manejar. Eso significa que puedes concentrarte en hacer las pocas cosas durante tu jornada de trabajo que únicamente tú puedes hacer por tu empresa.

Since you can't do everything, you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are of low value so that you have enough time to do the few things that really count.

Una de las palabras más poderosas en la administración del tiempo es la palabra «No». Diga «no» a todo lo que no sea un uso de alto valor de su tiempo. Dígalo pronto y dígalo a menudo.

Para que lo importante se haga, un gerente debe delegar todo lo que otros puedan realizar. Este es un simple hecho de la vida empresarial.

Creative procrastination is the act of thoughtfully and deliberately deciding upon the exact things you are not going to do right now, if ever.