Stedman Graham Quotes

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching their potential. If they don't, their potential slowly slips away over the course of their lifetime.

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

I maximize every day.

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].

The key to your success, to my success, to everyone's success is determined by our daily agenda. What you and I do every day is either making us or breaking us, we're either preparing or repairing. So when somebody says, 'John, I want to be a success. Where do I start?' I say, It's very simple. Start with today.

If your priorities don't get scheduled into your planner, other people's priorities will get put into your planner.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.

Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.