Chris Hadfield Quotes

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

Time management is really key for me.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.

If I'm going on vacation, I just work ahead.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

As for my schedule, I tend to go to bed at the same time every night and get up at the same time every morning, and I try to be as productive as possible. Some days, I can devote to one specific thing. Other days, it's a catch-all day.

I never leave anything until the morning. I put my jumpers, scarves, and shoes out the night before. You never know what is going to happen. You don't want to get stressed.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.