Ian Bremmer Quotes

I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.

I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.

I am methodical about my email inbox, and I always have a physical to-do list. Without those two things, I think I'd lose my mind.

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. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

I like to organize. I have an opinion. I like to get stuff done.

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.

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

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

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.

I love to-do lists.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

I guess I would say, it's okay to put things off until the very last minute as long as you know you've got them under control.

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

Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.

The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.