The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.
Interpretation
Saying 'no' helps you focus on what truly matters.
This quote emphasizes the importance of prioritizing your time and commitments. By declining tasks or requests that do not align with your highest goals, you can concentrate your efforts on activities that are more meaningful and productive, ultimately leading to greater success and fulfillment.
In practice
Use this quote during a workshop on time management to encourage participants to prioritize their tasks.
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!
Resolutions require only words. Results take action.
If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.
You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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