Richard Coyle Quotes

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

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

I think I've learned not to take everything so seriously and just try to focus on the work the most.

I find that if I use my time well and take care of my mind/body when I'm outside of work, then I feel more supported throughout my day. So, instead of waking up and going straight for my cell phone or running to the gym, I take a few deep breaths, envision what I'd like to achieve that day, then rid my mind of anything that isn't going to help me get there.

I'm a big believer in doing what you've got to do, but taking a breather when you can.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

Just put football first, or your job first. Give everything you've got all week, work hard, work super-hard to take it to the next level every week. And when you feel like you got to the point where you want to be, you definitely need the time to go out, relax, have a good time, take all the stress off it.

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.