Breakdown of Tasks Quotes

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

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.'

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

You've got to take every single play at a time, every practice at a time. You can't look forward, because you start putting too much pressure on yourself, you start to feel it.

To me, you have to take your schedule and just take things one game at a time.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps.

I just try to focus on one step at a time, what I have to do or what the team has to do to get here.

I set some goals: little goals first and then the big ones. I stopped thinking about big achievements.

I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

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.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.

I am just focusing on one match at a time.