Laura Vanderkam Quotes

#1. Getting adequate sleep is a sign that the world doesn't need your attention for seven to nine hours each day. It keeps spinning as usual in its orbit. Who wants to admit that?

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#2. Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take.

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#3. This realization leads to a different question than that suggested by all these tips on simplifying the holidays. Namely, what are you saving your energy for? This is all there is. Anything could happen and you are not guaranteed another snowman. So make a fuss. Make a show. Spend your energy now.

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#4. Since life comes up and emergencies happen, making success possible hinges on two things: being choosy about each day's priority list, and developing an accountability system that works.

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#5. You need to hit Monday ready to go ... To do that, you need weekends that rejuvenate you, rather than exhaust or disappoint you. Cross-training makes you a better athlete, and likewise, exercise, volunteer work, and spiritual activities make you a better worker.

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#6. Before the rest of the world is eating breakfast, the most successful people have already scored daily victories that are advancing them toward the lives they want.

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#7. Planning a few anchor events for a weekend guarantees you pleasure because - even if all goes wrong in the moment - you still will have derived some pleasure from the anticipation.

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#8. In life, you can be unhappy, or you can change things. And even if there are things you can't change, you can often change your mind-set and question assumptions that are making life less goof than it could be.

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#9. Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we need or want to do with it.

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#10. The majority of people who claim to be overworked work less than they think they do, and many of the ways people work are extraordinarily inefficient. Calling something "work" does not make it important or necessary.

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#11. You don't build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself. Recognizing that is what makes success possible.

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#12. the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

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#13. Ultimately, self-control lets you relax because it removes stress and enables you to conserve willpower for the important challenges.

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#14. If you choose your life's work well, something bewitching can happen through your labors. Each hour you log can be a source of joy.

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#15. Reading fiction as you commute to a job you don't like will make you feel somewhat more fulfilled; being in the right job will make you feel incredible.

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#16. You have fewer than 1,000 Saturdays with each child in your care before they're grown up.

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#17. Success in a competitive world requires hitting Monday refreshed and ready to go. The only way to do that is to create weekends that rejuvenate you rather than exhaust or disappoint you.

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#18. It is a metaphor for life, perhaps, in that everything is a metaphor for life. The berry season is short. So how full, exactly, do I intend to fill the box? Or, if we slice away the metaphor, we could just ask this: what does the good life look like for me?

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#19. In 168 hours, there is plenty of space to nurture yourself alongside your career and your relationships.

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#20. The best morning rituals are activities that don't have to happen and certainly don't have to happen at a specific hour. These are activities that require internal motivation.

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#21. become deeply engaged in their team's project, and

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#22. Successful people know that small things done repeatedly have great power.

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#23. You don't become a better parent or employee by not enjoying your life.

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#24. This is what happens when you treat your 168 hours as a blank slate. This is what happens when you fill them up only with things that deserve to be there. You build a life where you really can have it all.

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#25. Getting things down to routines and habits takes willpower at first but in the long run conserves willpower," says Baumeister.

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#26. I can accomplish more before breakfast than I used to do in a day.

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#27. you can choose how to spend your 168 hours, and you have more time than you think.

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