Chris Bailey Quotes

Attention is the backdrop against which we live our lives wherever we go and whatever we do, even if we’re just noticing the thoughts in our head.

when we schedule time for something, what we’re actually doing is simply deciding when we will invest our attention and energy into the task.

happiness is nothing more than coming to terms with how things change.

Make a very detailed plan on how you want to achieve what you want to achieve. What I’m arguing in my research is that goals need plans, ideally plans that include when, where, and which kind of action to move towards the goal.

Productivity isn’t about how busy or efficient you are — it’s about how much you accomplish

Boring Frustrating Difficult Unstructured or ambiguous Lacking in personal meaning Lacking in intrinsic rewards (i.e., it’s not fun or engaging) The more of these attributes a task has, and the more intense these attributes are, the less attractive a task will be to you, and the more likely you’ll procrastinate on it.

common sense isn’t always common action.

I learned the hard way how to step out of the time economy and into the knowledge economy to become more productive.

Managing your time becomes important only after you define what you want to accomplish and understand how much energy and focus you have throughout the day.

the most productive people are the ones who strike a balance between the two extremes, who understand the power of capturing and organizing what they have to get done, but who also don’t sacrifice real work in favor of being productive about productivity.

just because we’re busier doesn’t mean we’re getting more accomplished.

Today, time is no longer money. Productivity is money.

But busyness does not translate into productivity if it doesn’t lead you to accomplish anything.

What separates the most productive people from everyone else is that they make course corrections every week to gradually get better at everything they do.

I see drinking alcohol as a way of borrowing energy from tomorrow;