Quotes about productivity

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.

Great things in business are never done by one person.They are done by a team of people

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

If today your company doesn’t know what its ONE Thing is, then the company’s ONE Thing is to find out.

I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.

If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.

I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writing the book I'm not writing now and, so as to continue not doing so, I will come up with different excuses from the ones I use now to avoid actually confronting myself. Or else I'll be interned in a poorhouse, content with my utter failure, mingling with the riffraff who believed they were geniuses when in fact they were just beggars with dreams, mixing with the anonymous mass of people who had nei

The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible.

Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.

It’s not about getting out of your comfort zone to reach your goal. It's about widening your comfort zone so far that your goal fits comfortably inside. Once you do that, hitting your goals will be like hitting 3s for Steph Curry.

When you invest your life, you don’t lose it.

To move forward, you must first take a step

To move forward, one must take the first step

Moving forward requires that one first take a step.

Moving forward first requires a step to be taken.

Progress first requires a step to be taken.

The smallest of action is better than the greatest of intentions.

I hear many people share with me that they just 'have to do this thing' before they can relax and slow down.The truth is that taking the time to be still and reflective actually increases productivity and gives more joy to what you're doing when it's time to take action again.

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

We must continually abide in the vine, so that we can keep bearing lasting fruits

At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlier forms of society were too poor for this.

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

As a CEO, how do you know you are investing in technology that supports productivity?

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

... In a ROWE* people don't have schedules.They show up when they want.They don't have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime.They just have to get their work done.How they do it ?When they do it ?Where they do it ?It's totally up to them.Meetings & this kind of environments are Optional.What happens ... ?Almost across the board !- Productivity goes up- Worker Engagement goes up- Worker Satisfaction goes up- Turnovers goes down- Autonomy .. Mastery .. Purpose -these are the building blo

Fitness determines productivity.

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.

You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion.

Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.

Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.

When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.

I want to know how good at life I can be in a place where there are no distractions.

I do believe that simplicity is a hallmark of maturity. But I do not believe that simplicity is necessarily a first step. Often, we must learn a depth of complexity before a beautiful simplicity blooms, whether in mind or matter.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.” ― John Cleese

find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to work and bring about productivity.

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

Life management is not about BUSYNESS; it is about PRODUCTIVENESS and EFFECTIVENESS – major on the major things in life, not the minors.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing

Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.

…there is rapidly developing a soil shortage on your planet. That is, you are running out of good soil in which to grow your food. This is because soil needs time to reconstitute itself, and your corporate farmers have no time. They want land that is producing, producing, producing. So the age-old practice of alternating growing fields from season to season is being abandoned or shortened. To make up for the loss of time, chemicals are being dumped into the land in order to render it fertile fas

By seeing what triggers procrastination, and then making a plan to flip those triggers, doing your taxes becomes attractive. If I found myself putting off doing my taxes, I might sit down and make a plan to changes those triggers. For example, if the trigg

A project goal like a joke. If you have to explain it, it is not good / fun.

If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.

Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.

...I conducted a number of experiments to get in touch with my future self. Here are my favorite

Although you can download all the productivity apps in the world (and I have), no app will make you care about what you have to do like the Rule of 3. The rule is dead s

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment occurs, and wondrous things emerge. You become highly productive. You make things up, and you make them happen.

The key to productive life is a complete care for the body, soul, spirit and mental well being.

High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two—because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit.

Spring is a season of fruitfulness.

Reflect on what you do in your day. You may have never realized how some simple harmless activities rob you of precious time

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.

If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.

At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have?

Give yourself a deadline. Amazingly, many people work better under pressure. They are quickly moved to action when they know that they have a clock to beat!

List down all your distractions, all your addictions, all your hang-ups, and all your toxic relationships. Then cut them out of your life so you can finally move forward.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clearminds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity.

We don’t manage time, we manage activities within time

Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.

With a DO-CONFIRM checklist, he said, team members perform their jobs from memory and experience, often separately. But then they stop. They pause to run the checklist and confirm that everything that was supposed to be done was done. With a READ-DO checklist, on the other hand, people carry out the tasks as they check them off--it's more like a recipe.

Either you run the day or the day runs you

With gospel-centered productivity, peace comes first, not second. the mistake we often make is to make peace of mind the result of things we do rather than the source.

The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.//Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.

Authority—when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats—makes people shut down & productivity ceases.

So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbour, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage opposing winds. He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about.

I’m not leaving the plane that way,” I said to myself. That’s when I discovered the power of choice—a third place that is neither “have to” or “want to.” That discovery freed me to move forward to make two other choices: I’m not going to be kicked out of this plane; and If I’m going to leave this plane, it will be under my own power. I’m going to maximize my chances of a safe exit. The change in my feelings at that moment was quite dramatic. Stress was replaced with purposeful action; a sense of

Prior Planning Produces Positive Performance

Ask one question: Would a Millennial (anyone born between 1980 and 2000) look forward to working here?Try this exercise. Take a group of people into a large, open room with tackable wall surfaces or whiteboards. Give them large sheets of paper, sticky notes, markers, and tape. Ask them to create a concept for a work environment (don't say “office”) using the following words: high-energy, collaborative, healthy, productive, engaging, innovative, interactive, high-tech, and regenerating.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.

The only way to do great work is to just do it!

The mechanical clock was self-contained, and once horologists learned to drive it by means of a coiled spring rather than a falling weight, it could be miniaturized so as to be portable, whether in the household or on the person. It was this possibility of widespread private use that laid the basis for 'time discipline,' as against 'time obedience.' One can ... use public clocks to simon people for one purpose or another; but that is not punctuality. Punctuality comes from within, not from witho

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