Chris Bailey Quotes

productivity has nothing to do with how much you do, and everything to do with how much you accomplish.

Landscape architects call these paths “desire paths.

Directing your attention toward the most important object of your choosing — and then sustaining that attention — is the most consequential decision we will make throughout the day. We are what we pay attention to.

While no one acts in accordance with their values all the time, the most productive people act in accordance with their values in the long run — and they do this by regularly making course corrections and finding what they need to improve on week after week.

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

Ideas, tasks, and insights only have value when you capture and then act on them. Keeping notepads everywhere has helped me hold on to a ton of them.

Busyness is no different from laziness when it doesn’t lead you to accomplish anything.

According to Duhigg, cues that trigger habits fall into one of five categories: a specific time of day, a place, a feeling, the presence of certain people, or a preceding behavior that you have ritualized.

every lesson I learned fell into better management of one of three categories: my time, my attention, and my energy.

Focus: This involves narrowing your attentional spotlight to focus on the task at hand, which helps you work more efficiently.

Constantly trying to do more things — instead of the right things — leads to more stress, poorer quality of work, and lower productivity.

work smarter instead of just harder.

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

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.

Your Central Executive: This is your thinking and planning brain that lives in your prefrontal cortex.