Quotes About Planning

Achievers operate differently. They have an eye for the essential. They pause just long enough to decide what matters and then allow what matters to drive their day. Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. The difference isn't in intent, but in right of way. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.

Productivity isn't about being a workhorse, keeping busy or burning the midnight oil... . It's more about priorities, planning, and fiercely protecting your time." —Margarita Tartakovsky

be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now." —Alan Lakein

what's the ONE Thing I can do to ensure I hit my goals this week such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

To-do lists inherently lack the intent of success. In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists—getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.

Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here's the catch—the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.

Every minute of every day, the question is never will we be doing something, but rather what that something is we'll be doing. Sometimes

Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list—a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early

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

The Focusing Question. Mark Twain agreed with Carnegie and described it this way: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.

Those who wrote down their goals were 39.5 percent more likely to accomplish them.

What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow. It will either serve as a platform for the next level of your success or as a box, trapping you where you are.

El secreto para salir adelante es empezar. El secreto de empezar es dividir las tareas complejas que te agobian en tareas pequeñas y manejables y entonces empezar por la primera.

con un propósito, con una prioridad y con productividad, sabiendo que puedes y debes evitar el arrepentimiento, poniendo LO ÚNICO en lo más alto de tus pensamientos y en lo más alto de tu calendario

What can fail, will fail in worst time, so build suspenders and redundancy

When Arthur Guinness set up his first brewery, he signed a 9,000-year lease. When J. K. Rowling conceived Harry Potter, she thought big and envisioned seven years at Hogwarts before she penned the first chapter of the first of seven books.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists—getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.

Small plans at best yield small results, and big plans at worst beat small plans.

Life doesn't simplify itself the moment you simplify your focus; there's always other stuff screaming to be done. Always. So when stuff pops into your head, just write it down on a task list and get back to what you're supposed to be doing. In other words, do a brain dump. Then put it out of sight and out of mind until its time comes.

What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow.

Act as if you're going to have a great future? Set your goals. Do the work.