Esther Hicks Quotes

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.

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.

Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big boost of relieved energy.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.

There will always be another email to get through; something to clean up, file, and organize; more errands to do. Which is why balance is so important. Life is a marathon, not a sprint.

I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

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 whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

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

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.