Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

The only time to take the step towards change is now. Even if they're baby steps, start today! Consistency is important because you must make time to work on your goals. Even if there is little you can do, you must!

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

I keep telling people that the secret of their success is discovered in their daily agenda. What they do daily is going to determine their success.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

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.'

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

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.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

Free time is the enemy of progress

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a column is really good for me - the column has to be done, and there's no getting around it.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].