Quotes About Planning

if you can't see your rocks on your calendar, they might as well not exist. This is doubly important for things like sleep and exercise. If you don't put those in first, no one will.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." –Colonel David Hackworth Former United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist

NR: To think big but ensure payday comes every day: cash flow first, big payday second.

Money in a business is like gas in your car. You need to pay attention so you don't end up on the side of the road. But your trip is not a tour of gas stations.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." —James Cameron "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." —Colonel David Hackworth

Were my goals my own, or simply what I thought I should want? How much of life had I missed from underplanning or overplanning?

How to thrive in an unknowable future? Choose the plan with the most options. The best plan is the one that lets you change your plans.

But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don't have to wait to start something. So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?

If I believed this, how would it affect my decisions in the next week? Over the next 6 to 12 months?

Je?li chcemy mie? wi?cej czasu, musimy robi? mniej – to kluczowy warunek. Istniej? dwa sposoby osi?gni?cia tego stanu, które najlepiej zastosowa? równocze?nie: (1) przygotuj krótk? list? rzeczy do zrobienia; (2) przygotuj list? rzeczy, których nie nale?y robi?.

Sobre Richard Branson: «Lo primero que se plantea con cada negocio es: "¿Cuáles son los inconvenientes? ¿Y cómo me guardo de ellos?".

What will matter to me in six months, a year, five years? What is essential, and what is optional, in my life priorities?

Meetings should only be held to make decisions about a predefined situation, not to define the problem.

two primary goals or tasks per day.

Parece razonable dedicar el 5 por ciento del tiempo a pensar cómo pasarás el 95 por ciento restante.

This doesn't mean you ignore planning. I encourage you to make huge, ambitious plans. Just remember that the big-beyond-belief things are accomplished when you deconstruct them into the smallest possible pieces and focus on each "moment of impact," one step at a time.

Para tener una vida de éxito que entre dentro de la media, no hace falta planificar demasiado. Basta con no meterte en problemas, seguir una formación académica y buscarte un trabajo que te pueda gustar.

Asset allocation: "They absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, know they're going to be wrong . . . so they set up an asset allocation system that will make them successful. They all agree asset allocation is the single most important investment decision.

The Checklist Manifesto.

Mucha, mucha gente trabaja muy duro para ahorrar dinero y poder viajar cuando se jubile.

Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.

Qué coste tendrá cada uno de ellos para ti y para la gente que te importa dentro de uno, tres, cinco y diez años? Míralo, óyelo, siéntelo.

Dame seis horas para talar un árbol y dedicaré las cuatro primeras a afilar el hacha.

don't recommend using Outlook or computerized to-do lists, because it is possible to add an infinite number of items. I use a standard piece of paper folded in half three times, which fits perfectly in the pocket and limits you to noting only a few items. There should never