If you wait, all that happens is you get older.
- Larry McMurtry

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
- Leo Kennedy

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
- Vincent T. Foss

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
- Goethe

Nothing breeds inactivity like not knowing what you're doing.
- Lester Bittle

Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of your time!!

You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
- Alvin Toffler

Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.
- Merrill Douglass

Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.
- Peter F. Drucker

TIME - Use It Or Lose It. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly "manage time" (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going.
Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

It is always amazing how many of the things we do will never be missed. And nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

A magnifying glass, sun and a dry pile of leaves and easily be used to make a fire. However, if you keep the "hot stop" moving around, a fire will NEVER get started. Have to focus on ONE SPOT to start a fire. Many people spread their energies and efforts over so many things that they never really accomplish ANYTHING really important.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
- Robert Herrick

TIME MANAGEMENT:
Think of a big jar (represents time in a week).
Fill it with large rocks - is jar "full"? No
Fill it with pebbles - is jar "full"? No
Fill it with sand - is jar "full"? No
Fill it with water - is jar "full"? Yes
What is the proportion between rocks, pebbles, sand & water?
Who is in control of what goes in your jar?
Do you just wait for things to fall in? - or
Do you plan to make sure the important things (large rocks) get handled?

Why kill time when you can make it work for you.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie

Simple gardening principle: Water what you want to grow. Assess your life. Are you really watering the important things? Some people plant seeds then water elsewhere. It's not just "sowing." You must also water what you sow if you truly want to reap the fruitage.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and yet we act as though there would be no end to them.
- Seneca

"The Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin. Good song for stressing the need to take time with your children.

Learn to pause...or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
- Doug King

What is the best use I can make of my TIME right now?