“It’s better to be urgent and efficient so that you can afford to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labors instead of stressing that you have not done enough to provide stability for yourself and your family.”

- Tim and Julie Harris, Harris Rules

“Goal achievement has to do with only two things: Managing where your attention goes, and managing where your effort goes. That’s it. Our job is to continuously reprioritize, reorganize, and optimize those two things.”

- Sharran Srivatsaa

"Focus is about saying no. No to distractions. No to interruptions."

- Steve Jobs

“Eliminate temptations and destroy distractions.”

- Craig Ballantyne

“Effectively delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high leverage activity there is. Transferring responsibility to other skilled and trained people enables you to give your energies to other high leverage activities. Delegation means growth, both for individuals and organizations.”

- Stephen R. Covey

“An example of your amazing, but possibly underutilized, ability to control your motivation, not to mention your efficiency, is how you feel right before a vacation. In the time prior to taking a vacation, you're super organized. You edit the things on your to-do list to only the most necessary. You're awesome at managing your time and getting things done. It's almost miraculous how efficient you become. What would happen if you treated each workday as if you had that plane to catch for your vacation?”

- Tim and Julie Harris, Harris Rules

“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.”

- John Carmack

"Sometimes it's the first thing you do. Sometimes it's the only thing you do. Regardless, doing the most important thing is always the most important thing."

- Gary Keller & Jay Papasan, The ONE Thing

“Your life goals become the framework for how you prioritize and manage your time.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“You can always get more money, but you can never get more time.”

- From Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell

“To make progress toward your higher-level goals, you must break them down into lower-level, concrete subgoals.”

- From The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

“The moment you check email, read the news or surf social media, someone else’s priorities jump in front of yours.”

- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins

“There are many things we want to accomplish in life, but there can be only one number one priority at a time. Know it, attack it, and focus on it every day.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“Spoiler alert: The perfect time, or enough time, will never magically appear.”

- From Time Management Essentials by Anna Dearmon Kornick

“It’s never about having the time, it’s about making the time.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

“People don’t multitask because they’re good at multitasking. They multitask because they’re bad at focusing.”

- From Time Management Essentials by Anna Dearmon Kornick

“Make sure you are spending more than 50% of your time on what matters most!”

- From Mindset, Model and Marketing! by Tom Ferry

“If it’s important enough, I’ll make the time. If not, I’ll make an excuse.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

“Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you’re saying no to something else.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

“Embrace the fact that if you were powerful enough to create an overcommitted and overstretched life, you’re powerful enough to uncreate it.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo