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