•- Think carefully about what priorities mean to you… about how you decide what is really important. Remember, you will never have time for everything, but you will have time for most important thing.
•- 80-20 rule: Eighty percent of the value comes from 20 percent of the items. While only 20 percent of the value comes from 80 percent of the items. Learn to concentrate on your high value 20 percent and master them.
•- Most people start with the quick, easy, enjoyable things first. Instead, start with the important things first.
•- Just because something is urgent, doesn't mean it’s important. Important activities are those which help you achieve your goals.
•- Learn to distinguish between important and urgent.
•- Don’t allow trivial thing to crowd out the important things.
•- Don’t always do someone else’s requests at the expense of your own top priority tasks. Learn when to say no. Do it logically, firmly and tactfully.
•- Constantly switching priorities often results from failure to establish priorities properly in the first place. The best way to set priorities is on the basis of importance.
•- Don’t constantly switch priorities just because people make loud demands. Be very careful about which squeaky wheels get greased.
•- Determine your long range goals. Make sure you are aiming at what you really want.
•- Be sure to set SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timed
•- Don’t try to keep your goals in your head, write them down
•- Read your long range goals at least once every day. You will find it easier to sort out all the trivia that comes your way.
•- You need short range goals to know what to do today. You need long range goals to add continuity and meaning to all your short range goals.
•- Consider projects carefully. Make sure they will move you toward your goals. Identify the critical steps, when they should be done and who should do them.
•- Set deadlines for all your projects. Estimate the time needed and determine the logical starting time to avoid last-minute rush jobs.
•- Focus on your goals at all times. “Will what I am doing right now help me achieve my goals?” if the answer is “no”, then switch to something else that will help.
•- Be sure that you have at least one significant goal every day. Don’t quit until you reach your daily goals. Before long you will develop the habit of setting goals and reaching them.
•- Write out long range personal goals. Strive to balance your time across all aspects of your life.
•- When conditions change, you may need to modify your goals. And, as you achieve your goals be sure to set new ones.
•- You never seem to have enough time yet you have all the time there is. The problem is not the shortage of time but how you choose the time that is available.
•- Time management is really self-management.
•- Chinese Proverb: Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life lies in eliminating the non-essentials.
•- Earl Nightingale: “Habits are the key to success. Successful people form the habit of doing the things that others don’t like to do.”
•- Zig Ziglar:”When you choose a habit, you also choose the results of that habit.”
•- It is not enough to know, you must also act. Knowledge without action is impotent.
•- Most of us only change when we are forced to do so. Force can be either external or internal.
•- The key to will-power is want-power. If you want something strongly enough, you will usually find the discipline necessary to do it.
•- Self-discipline is simply doing what you know you should do, regardless of whether or not you feel like doing it
•- Self-discipline is easier if you stop thinking about it, and simply do it
•- Press on. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence
•- Henry Ford: “Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.
