Quotes About Productivity

Blue light glasses protect your eyes from blue light and keep you focused on your work

I don't believe in writers' block. Do doctors have 'doctors block?' Do plumbers have 'plumbers' block?" No. We all have days when we don't feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something so damn special by giving it a faintly romantic name.

If you'd see my schedule, you'd know I have no time to slow down.

Ya se lo he dicho, por supuesto; pero quería agradecértelo de algún modo y, por otro lado, me parece que, si no tiene algo que limpiar, no sabe qué hacer con su tiempo. La han educado así.

I don't have time to ruins others lives. I'm too busy making my own better.

Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. –PETER F. DRUCKER

Executives execute. No one cares how many hours you spend at work and how many items you check off your to-do list. Execution and results are all that really matter in any business.

Rather than dividing your attention between twenty goals and doing none of them well, pick one to three goals and execute them brilliantly. Multitasking works no better for team achievement than it does for individual productivity; you're better off single-tasking in a fierce, focused way.

Exercise doesn't take time, it makes time. Afew years ago, I gave a talk at a rather vast corporate campus. Teams aimed to cluster together, but as you might imagine with a big organization, this did not always happen. One woman told me that she had recently started working with a group located several buildings away. This meant that at least

The "before 3 p.m." part requires a little more explanation. Some research has found that people who exercise regularly are more likely to do so in the morning—because, as we discussed in the morning routine section, mornings tend to be more regimented in people's lives. If you build exercise into your morning routine, it will happen, whereas a planned 5 p.m. workout might be foiled by a meeting that runs late or a kid needing a ride home. Yet

Getting things down to routines and habits takes willpower at first but in the long run conserves willpower," says Baumeister.

Productivity, we are discovering, is a function of joy. Joy comes not from free M&Ms, but from making progress toward goals that matter to you.

What do I like about my schedule? What would I like to spend more time doing? What would I like to spend less time doing? How can I make that happen?

We have plenty of time. Averaged over the entire American population, people watch almost as much television as they work. If people don't exercise, it's because they don't want to exercise. Time becomes the scapegoat. Time becomes the scapegoat for all sorts of things, which explains the phrase "If you want something done, ask a busy person.

when it comes to daily life, the time-crunch narrative doesn't tell the whole story. The problem is not that we're all overworked or underrested, it's that most of us have absolutely no idea how we spend our 168 hours.

people were happiest when they were completely absorbed in activities that were difficult but doable, to the point where their brains no longer had space to ruminate about the troubles of daily life.

Doing a lot does not mean you're doing anything important with your 168 hours.

You cannot remove randomness from the universe. You can, however, use your 168 hours to stack the odds in your favor. To do this, you have to place many bets, and leave nothing you can control to chance. In other words, you have to be open to possibilities, and plan for opportunities.

This is the 168 Hours principle for work: Ideally, there should be almost nothing during your work hours—whatever you choose those to be—that is not advancing you toward your goals for the career and life you want.

mi] arma secreta para las conferencias telefónicas que sólo incluyen audio es hacer manualidades, usualmente, bordado en punto de cruz. Esto mantiene mis manos ocupadas y me impide leer artículos en internet, que es lo que solía hacer antes. Tiene que ser una manualidad que puedas abandonar en cualquier momento y que no exija demasiado. Para mí es mucho más fácil prestar atención cuando tengo las manos ocupadas.

Successful people know that hours, like capital, can be consciously allocated with the goal of creating riches—in the form of a changed world, a life's work—over time. Indeed, successful people understand that work hours must be more carefully stewarded than capital because time is absolutely limited. You can earn more money, but the mightiest among us is granted no more than 168 hours per week, and it is physically impossible to work for all of them.

given chunk of waking hours. By defining this amount, we start to think of each day as containing a given quantity of temporal space. That time will be filled by something. I maintain that what we fill each day with is largely up to us, based on current

Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we choose to put into it.