Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

I can't let distractions get in the way.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

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.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.

My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.

When I'm locked in and focused, I can do pretty much anything I want.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

Every day, I tell myself, 'It will be better if I spend more time on thinking about good ideas and working instead of watching TV or shopping.'

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.

If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.