Jehane Noujaim Quotes

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

I read somewhere that people who make lists are more likely to achieve their ambitions.

I think the right way to work is by focusing on each task at hand and then move forward.

I set goals for myself every three months. I write them down.

If you want to get anything done, you have to start somewhere.

When people look at all the things I do, they say it's overwhelming, but I don't feel overwhelmed. I get it done. I'm very organized, and it's all tied together.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

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.'

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.