Isn’t it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They’ve cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.
If you don’t fall off the wagon regularly, you’re not playing a big enough game.
Change – even change meant to improve our lives – creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.
The better you get, the better you better get.
The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.
It’s hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
The ancestor of every action is a thought. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.
There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs.
At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.
The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.
Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.
If you’re at zero backlog, it’s a whole lot easier to change priorities.
The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.
First of all, if it’s on your mind, your mind isn’t clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you’ll come back to regularly and sort through.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it’s hard to eat spaghetti.
You don’t manage priorities, you have them.
Why do people complain that there’s no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.
There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.