Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

by Brian Tracy

The first D is desire: You must have an intense, burning desire to get your time under control and to achieve maximum effectiveness.

The second D is decisiveness: You must make a clear decision that you are going to practice good time management techniques until they become a habit.

The third D stands for determination: You must be willing to persist in the face of all temptations to the contrary until you have become an effective time manager. ...

the fourth D, is discipline: You must discipline yourself to make time management a lifelong practice. Effective discipline is the willingness to force yourself to pay the price, and to do what you know you should do, when you should do it...

To become excellent in time management, and to get your entire life under control, you need to engage in “slow thinking” on a regular basis. Start with the question, “What am I trying to do?”

THE MOST important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It’s thinking

There is a rule that every minute spent in planning saves ten minutes in execution.

All of time management boils down to helping you determine the most important task that you can do at the moment, and then giving you the tools and techniques to begin immediately with that one task, so you can keep working on it until it is complete.