Quotes About Self-management

There is not the management of time, there is only the management of you.

Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.

At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This

A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.

mastering one's future must surely start with managing one's "self." And if we could accomplish that, we could manage and master at least a part of what we call "life.

Life is to be lived by being in charge of time.

A Californian firm called Morning Star Tomatoes has been experimenting with 'self-management' for two decades.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

There is an emerging fourth generation that is different in kind. It recognizes that 'time management' is really a misnomer - the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. Satisfaction is a function of expectation as well as realization.

Highly effective people do not really manage time—they manage themselves.

Highly effective people do not really manage time—they manage themselves. While most of the world spins around in Quadrant I, reacting to urgent matters and managing one crisis after another, people who spend a majority of their time in Quadrant II are leading balanced, serene, and ordered lives. They are planning and executing according to their highest priorities.

cuando examinamos este don en el contexto de la autoadministración efectiva, comprendemos que por lo general no es el esfuerzo dramático, visible, que se realiza hasta el límite de nuestras fuerzas una vez en la vida, el que procura un éxito duradero. El poder se adquiere aprendiendo a usar ese gran don en las decisiones que tomamos día tras día.

el término «administración del tiempo» es en realidad una denominación poco afortunada; el desafío no consiste en administrar el tiempo, sino en administrarnos a nosotros mismos.

if you are an effective manager of yourself, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

misnomer—the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. Satisfaction is a function of expectation as well as realization. And expectation (and satisfaction) lie in our Circle of Influence.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Research suggests that when we have conflicting goals, we don't manage ourselves well. We become anxious and paralyzed, and we often end up doing nothing.

In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring America.

Autoimmunity is internalized by patients as an opportunity for the ultimate self-management project. But in fact it is a manifestation of a flawed collective project. If it is an indictment of anything, it is an indictment not of our personhood but of our impulse to see social problems as being about our personhood, instead of a consequence of our collective shortcomings as co-citizens of this place and time.

But I don't see myself as someone who needs to be managed or has to worry about injuries.

We never had a manager. We never had a booking agent. We never had a lawyer. We booked our own tours, paid our own bills, made our own mistakes and never had anybody shield us from either the truth or the consequences.

If you're passionate about life, and you love what you do, you learn how to organize yourself and switch your various sides on and off.

I've had a lot of bosses that I didn't agree with, but the worst boss was very much me myself. So, I can't let myself slack off, and if I do slacking off, I'm the one that's yelling at myself. I've worked with a lot of different employers, and none of them have been as aggressive as I have been.