Nick Saban Quotes

I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

I'm able to think more clearly when I don't have clutter and stuff around.

I don't waste my time doing my head in about stupid things that don't really matter and don't waste time worrying over nothing.

I function properly, feel better, do better, look better, and treat others better when there's less clutter.

Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.

I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.

The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too much stuff into too few hours in the day. Sit down, shut up, and most importantly, be glad.

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

The more you can keep your action and your mind and the ball you are delivering as simple as you can nothing can go wrong.

If I was to get nervous, then I'm wasting my energy.