Few things are as important to your quality of life as your choices about how to spend the precious resource of your free time.
Author: Winifred Gallagher | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
A large part of wisdom is knowing what to ignore. A large part of expertise is knowing where to place your attention.
Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management, Success / Failure, Wisdom
Any energy that goes into what doesn’t matter comes at the expense of what does.
Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management, Success / Failure
If you repeated what you did today 365 more times will you be where you want to be next year?
Author: Kevin Kelly | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
If you let motivation dictate your actions, inertia conspires to keep you in place. Action creates progress. Progress creates momentum. Momentum creates motivation.
Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management, Psychology | Behavior, Success / Failure
Two millennia after Seneca devised his cautionary taxonomy of time saved, spent, and wasted, we have invented innumerable tools and technologies to save time but find ourselves wasting it more helplessly than ever.
Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
[Time] is the elementary particle of presence and the fundamental unit of attention — the two most precious resources we have, out of which every meaningful experiences is welded. To give a practice your time is an act of devotion. To give a person your time is a supreme act of love.
Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
Time baffles us with its elasticity, the way it slows down when we’re afraid and speeds up as we age. It harrows us with its stagnancy, the way waiting twists the psyche. It haunts us with its demand for meaning. Time is the breath in the lungs of life, the marrow in the skeleton of space, the substance we are made of… But while we … [ Read more ]
Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
It’s pretty horrifying to realize that at the end of our lives, one of our biggest regrets will almost certainly be that we wasted so much of our attention, that we cared about the wrong things. And yet very few of us live as though we’ve internalized that insight… Most of us live as though we think we’re going to live forever because that would … [ Read more ]
Author: Sean Illing | Source: Vox | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
Once you truly understand that you’re guaranteed to miss out on almost every experience the world has to offer, the fact that there are so many you still haven’t experienced stops feeling like a problem. Letting go of all the things you haven’t done, but imagine you could do, lets you focus more intensely on the things you are doing.
Authors: James Surowiecki, Oliver Burkeman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
[Oliver Burkeman recommends] abandoning the delusion that time is something you can manage successfully. Trying to live as efficiently as possible, Burkeman argues, is both futile and self-defeating. There is always more to do, always another small task to complete, and, paradoxically, the better we get at completing tasks, the faster new ones arise. Obsessing over time management therefore means spending your time trying, and … [ Read more ]
Authors: James Surowiecki, Oliver Burkeman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours.
Author: Eric Berne | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
In the long-run, prioritization beats efficiency.
Author: James Clear | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word no.
Author: Shane Parrish | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
Bertrand Russell called it “fruitful monotony.” Adam Phillips called it “fertile solitude.” Walt Whitman called it “loafing.” The Buddhist tradition describes it simply as presence. Whatever we may call it, amid a culture of filling the existential void with cultish productivity and an endless stream of dopamine-laced distractions, it is nothing less than a countercultural act of courage and resistance to enact such states of … [ Read more ]
Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.
Author: Shane Parrish | Subjects: Advice, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
There are two kinds of time: the kind you spend in your own way, and the time that other people control.
Author: Julia Hobsbawm | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
You do something all day long, don’t you? Everyone does. If you get up at seven o’clock and go to bed at eleven, you have put sixteen good hours, and it is certain that you have been doing something all that time. The only difference is that you do a great many things and I do one. If you took the time in question and … [ Read more ]
Author: Thomas Edison | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management, Success / Failure
Without Time nothing is possible. Everything requires Time. Time is the only permanent and absolute ruler in the universe. But she is a scrupulously fair ruler. She treats every living person exactly alike every day. No matter how much of the world’s goods you have managed to accumulate, you cannot successfully plead for a single moment more than the pauper receives without ever asking for … [ Read more ]
Author: William J. Reilly | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise.
Author: Charles De Montesquieu | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management