Craig Reucassel Quotes

Sometimes I feel like just to get all my own work done would be great. You always feel like you're behind, and they're six other things that you wish you could get to but you can't.

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.

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

My productivity is overwhelming!

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It's like playing 'Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.'

Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

My inbox is the enemy.

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

… a job of infinite stress

In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

I always have a tendency to take on too many things.

I can't stop biting off more than I can chew.

There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

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.

There's a lot to do. There's a lot to do. More than I even thought.

Those who work much do not work hard.

I'm a project guy, but when my list of things to do gets too long or involved, it can stress me out to the point of catatonia. So I focus on the small stuff first and keep the larger picture as motivation - but not so close that it overwhelms.

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

I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.