| If you want to decrease your overall stress | | | | Burr • The time to relax is when you |
| levels and increase your spare time, you must | | | | don't have time for it. - Sydney J. Harris |
| forget what all the efficiency and | | | | • Choose one of these three ways to |
| time-management experts say about time | | | | handle a task fast: 1. Do it yourself. 2. |
| management and what you should do to be more | | | | Hire an expert to handle it for you. 3. |
| productive. The problem with classic | | | | Decide that it isn't worth doing and strike |
| time-management techniques is that you still | | | | it off your to-do list. - From Real Success |
| end up working ten or twelve hours a day, | | | | Without a Real Job • Don't overdo |
| possibly being a little more productive, but | | | | things that shouldn't be done in the first |
| still feeling burnt out and with not much | | | | place. - Unknown wise person • Doing a |
| leisure time. Instead, adopt the following | | | | thing well is often a waste of time. - |
| ten time-management insights from various | | | | Robert Byrne • Learn to distinguish |
| people that offer both inspiration and a lot | | | | between these three: 1. Some things need |
| of wisdom for creating more leisure time in | | | | doing better than you or anyone has ever done |
| your life: • If you don't have enough | | | | them before. 2. Some just need doing to get |
| time to accomplish something, consider the | | | | by. 3. Some are not necessary; they don't |
| work finished once it's begun. - John Gage | | | | need doing and are best left to the misfits |
| • Remember that nothing matters very | | | | of this world to pursue. - From Real Success |
| much, and few things matter at all. - Arthur | | | | Without a Real Job The moral of the above |
| Balfour • When you are doing something | | | | time-management wisdom is straightforward: |
| difficult, tedious, or extremely | | | | You can experience more leisure time and a |
| time-consuming, ask yourself what would | | | | full, relaxed, satisfying, and happy life |
| happen if you didn't do it. If the answer is | | | | today instead of fifteen or twenty years down |
| nothing, or next to nothing, stop doing it. | | | | the road. Tens of millions of people in the |
| - From Real Success Without a Real Job | | | | U.S., Canada, Europe, and many other |
| • One of the best ways of avoiding | | | | countries have such a life. Contrary to |
| necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem | | | | popular belief, however, a lifestyle with |
| busily employed on things that are already | | | | plenty of free time is not based on being a |
| done. - John Kennett Galbraith • If | | | | multi-millionaire. A full, relaxed, |
| you're already in a hole, it's no use to | | | | satisfying, and happy life is achieved by |
| continue digging. - Roy W. Walters • | | | | simply choosing it even though the vast |
| Never do today what you can do as well | | | | majority of Americans don't. Above all, |
| tomorrow; because something may occur to make | | | | forget about classic time-management |
| you regret your premature action. - Aaron | | | | techniques - clearly, they don't work. |