Andy Stanley Quotes

My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

My productivity is overwhelming!

We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.

No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.

I think that since I've had the baby, who's almost two, it's a work-hard-play-hard. Imake a lot of lists, I'm very scheduled, which is hard sometimes, but it keeps me organized - I know Now I can play or Now I've got to work.

It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

If your priorities don't get scheduled into your planner, other people's priorities will get put into your planner.

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

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

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

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

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.

I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.