Phil McGraw Quotes

I like to think that I'm extremely method with my tactics on getting work.

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

You need to know how to put a mission together to victory!

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going to achieve it. In the military we are taught never to go for a single answer, no matter how obvious that might be.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.

Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

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?

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

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.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

We must use time creatively.