Michael Lomenda Quotes

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder…, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

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.'

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

Time management is really key for me.

I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet.

I'm a happy human being when I'm overloaded with stuff to do, but I got stuff to do.

I'm not disciplined at all. I barely function. But I get a lot done. I take days off all the time, but when I work, I work very fast and very efficiently. But I'm always having days when I'm feeling a little anxious, and I take a day off. I work in a funny way.

I don't waste my time doing my head in about stupid things that don't really matter and don't waste time worrying over nothing.

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.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

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

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

I'm not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.