Brian Tracy Quotes

Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I need to create a made-up deadline for myself for my own records. Otherwise, I don't write anything.

I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where my checkered ring binders and my fountain pen are ready for use. I try to write two pages every day.

Plan your work and work your plan.

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

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

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

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

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

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

I'm a better musician now, and I rarely practice because age has taught me the value of economy. And I think I'm a better writer now because I don't waste as much time, dilly-dallying and sassafrassin' and sloop and sloppin' and frying eggs. When you start writing, half the time you're just saying howdy to the page. My process now is a little more lean and muscular. I don't waste a lot of time. When I had kids, I learned how much time I had before, and how much time you actually need to do something. If you don't have time, you'll just do it and get it done.

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

Donald Trump probably spends more time getting more things done than many people have any experience with, but yet he's the one undisciplined, he's the one that's haphazard, he's the one who's erratic, he's the one who's unpredictable.

If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.