Denis Waitley Quotes

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

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.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.

The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.

I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.

You’re putting in the same number of hours a week but we are just repackaging it more efficiently.

I really get my best work done in the morning, so if I have to edit speeches or comments, that all happens before I get to work.

I used to think I was a night owl. I realized I'm not, because I have energy at night, but I'm not as focused and productive when I try to get things done.

Time is priceless. Spend it with people you have high value and energy exchange rates with.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

If you're a night person you can barely get out of bed in time to get to work or get your kids off to school. You're at your most productive and creative much later in the day, and for you, something like getting up early to go for a run is not going to set you up for success because you're not a morning person.

It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.