If you’ve ever felt stress — and who hasn’t? — chances are excellent that it’s because you felt you just didn’t have enough time to do what you wanted to at the level of quality to which you were committed.

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

The people who get nothing done often work a great deal harder. In the first place, they underestimate the time for any one task. They always expect that everything will go right. Yet, as every executive knows, nothing ever goes right. The unexpected always happens — the unexpected is indeed the only thing one can confidently expect.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

So little time and so little to do.

This pressure leads to a scarcity mindset — we believe that there will never be enough time, so we say no to changes because we feel like we don’t have the hours to cultivate new positive habits.

If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else — we are the busiest people in the world.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Without a deadline, the motivation to do a task is small to nonexistent.

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

I don’t have time” is just another way of saying “It’s not a priority.” What you really have to do is say whether it is a priority or not. If something is your number one priority, then you will do it.

- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!
- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

In many cases, the bottleneck to achieving results is simply making the time to do the work.

You're capable of exercising, but are you making the time?

You're capable of writing, but are you making the time?

You're capable of reading, but are you making the time?