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.
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it's a choice.
Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.
You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.
We don't talk about next year. We talk about today, and we talk about the next game. And that's all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself.
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