Chris Bailey Quotes

Happiness is the rose-colored lens we place atop our attentional space, which allows us to relate to our experiences in a more productive and creative fashion.

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.

Awareness: This means becoming aware of what’s going on in your internal and external environments, which helps you work more mindfully and deliberately.

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.

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

deeply care about your productivity goals, about why you want to become more productive.

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

meditation and mindfulness both build your attention muscle,

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.

When someone says they “don’t have time” for something, what they’re really saying is that a task isn’t as important or attractive as whatever else they have on their plate.

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

1. How much of your time you spend intentionally 2. How long you can hold your focus in one sitting 3. How long your mind wanders before you catch it

Productivity isn’t about doing more, faster — it’s about doing the right things, deliberately and with intention.

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

I captured them in my notepad so I could deal with them later.