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.
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.
Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.
The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.
Do something worth remembering.
I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
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