Brian Tracy Quotes

The first fifteen minutes of your day should be spent planning your day. Set specific goals as to what you will accomplish. These clear goals will give you focal points on which you can govern your actions and provide your with a template you can live your day from.

As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

You’re putting in the same number of hours a week but we are just repackaging it more efficiently.

The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.

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.

In promotional mode, every day is a series of decisions. You can easily fill up your day with checklist stuff.

I love to-do lists.

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.

There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.

Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

I guess I would say, it's okay to put things off until the very last minute as long as you know you've got them under control.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

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.

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

I tend to be pretty efficient with my time. I work on a novel for four to five hours a day, and then the rest of my day is spent doing other things, whether it's spending time with my family, or going through and making notes on the script, or working on the marketing. It's just a matter of scheduling.

Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.