Mark Twain Quotes

If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).

Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big boost of relieved energy.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

I guess I would say, it's okay to put things off until the very last minute as long as you know you've got them under control.

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today -- for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.