20 Nov 2010

Plan your day the night before. Begin at the end...

You feel fantastic for a day well spent. Now which items did you check off your task list? (max 3-7)

 

20 Nov 2010

Focus on opportunities, strengths, what can be done.

Asset-based thinking (vs deficit-based thinking):

Focus on

  • opportunities (vs problems)
  • strengths (vs weaknesses)
  • what can be done (vs what can't)

Personal, interpersonal, situational assets.

20 Nov 2010

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way is arduous and long...

But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier.

- Colonel Harland Sanders

26 Sep 2010

Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.

11 Jul 2010

Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever scares you, go do it.

Quote from Derek Sivers

4 Jul 2010

Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important.

(Parkinson’s Law)

Quote by Thimothy Ferris

22 May 2010

Resistance is most powerful at the finish line. Be alert.

via Steven Pressfield

22 May 2010

Motivation follows action.

via Steve Pavlina

22 May 2010

Make predictions. Take action. Learn from your failures.

via Steve Pavlina

21 May 2010

Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time.

via Timothy Ferriss

21 May 2010

A professional plays it as it lays. The field is level only in heaven.

via Steven Pressfield

21 May 2010

Any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health or integrity, will elicit Resistance.

Inner Resistance.

via Steven Pressfield

20 May 2010

A professional is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.

via Steven Pressfield

20 May 2010

Create a personal productivity scaffold.

At the beginning and/or the end of your working day. To get you motivated or relaxed or creative etc.

via Steve Pavlina

20 May 2010

Does the action take less than 2 minutes? Then do it immediately.

If not, then either

  • delegate it,
  • defer it to your Next actions list, or
  • defer it into your calendar

via Getting Things Done, written by David Allen.

20 May 2010

Principle of priority: Know the difference between what is urgent and what is important. And do what's important first.

via Steven Pressfield

20 May 2010

Use visualization: imagine your achieved goal, using all senses, through your own eyes.

via Steve Pavlina

20 May 2010

Wait for nothing. Go out and create what you want.

via Steve Pavlina

20 May 2010

Focus on implementation, not idea generation.

via Steve Pavlina

20 May 2010

Analysis leads to paralysis.

via Anthony de Mello

Personal development quotes. Illustrated quotes are moved to The Mind's Eye

Sammy Dellicour

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