Leah Busque Quotes

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority.

The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.

I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and keep on going until I'm finished. I don't do calls. I don't do meetings.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Remember, America: organization will set you free.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Organize and execute around priorities.

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

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

Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.

I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.