Sheilah Graham Quotes

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Live now. Procrastinate later.

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

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

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.

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

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

College is good discipline. That's what I learned there: pull an all-nighter, get it done, and get an A. I'm the biggest procrastinator, and I learned how to be an efficient procrastinator.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

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.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

What has not wasting time impaired?

How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).