Alan Schaaf Quotes

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.

Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority.

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.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

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

Time management is really key for me.

Time management is really important.

I love to-do lists.

I'm very organized. I have my day-to-day schedule, every 15 minutes, written out.

Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you're putting the most important things first.

Probably the biggest problem I had was I didn't understand the importance of scheduling.

I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

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

I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.

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

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.