Quotes About Productivity

Pareto points us in a very clear direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early

life as a series of connected choices, where our purpose sets our priority and our priority determines the productivity our actions produce.

Don't focus on being busy; focus on being productive. Allow what matters most to drive your day.

There are two types of counterbalancing: the balancing between work and personal life and the balancing within each. In the world of professional success, it's not about how much overtime you put in; the key ingredient is focused time over time.

Once you've figured out what actually matters, keep asking what matters most until there is only one thing left. That core activity goes at the top of your success list.

Whether you say "later" or "never," the point is to say "not now" to anything else you could do until your most important work is done.

high multitaskers are suckers for irrelevancy.

Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

But it's actually a "way of lie," for the truth is multitasking is neither efficient nor effective. In the world of results, it will fail you every time.

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

What's the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Extraordinary results demand that you set a priority and act on it. When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.

Highly successful people know this. So every day they line up their priorities anew

Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions.

The challenge becomes how long you stay on your priority. To be able to address your priorities outside of work, be clear about your most important work priority so you can get it done. Then go home and be clear about your priorities there so you can get back to work.

Your work life is divided into two distinct areas—what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.

When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.

Hacer dos cosas a la vez es no hacer ninguna». Publilio Siro

You can actually give attention to two things, but that is what's called "divided attention." And make no mistake. Take on two things and your attention gets divided. Take on a third and something gets dropped.

Those milliseconds add up. Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness.

With research overwhelmingly clear, it seems insane that—knowing how multitasking leads to mistakes, poor choices, and stress—we attempt it anyway Maybe it's just too tempting.

If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

multitasking slows us down and makes us slower witted.