Don't get D-Railed:
Set and achieve your goals by applying one of these four "D's" to anything that gets in your way:
Drop it
Delegate it
Delay it
Do it
- John Lee, time management expert

Each of us is given a pocketful of time to spend however we may. We may use what we will. We waste what we will. But we can never get back a day.
- Roger Wilcox

There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
- Bill Watterson

Procrastination is like a credit card; it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker

Interruptions: The average employee 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 they were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of their time!!

Six ways to simplify your life:
1. Resign from any organizations whose meetings you dread.
2. Learn to live with less information: Stop watching TV news. Cancel half your magazine subscriptions.
3. Work where you live, or live where you work.
4. Be in bed by 9 p.m. one night a week
5. Live on half of what you learn, and save the other half.
6. Keep asking, "Is this going to simplify my life?"
- Elaine St. James, article in "Fast Company", June/July 1998

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

Don’t lose
Your head
To gain a minute
You need your head
Your brains are in it.
- Burma Shave

Free up one hour a day for 30 days, and use that time to reflect on a simple question: What is it that's most complicating my life? Am I working too hard? Am I working at a job I don't like? Then start thinking about how and what you can cut back.
- Elaine St. James

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
- Jules Renard

Stuff doesn't just cost money. It also takes up time. And what does everyone say they really want? More time!
- Elaine St. James

I urge people to go throught the house once a year and get rid of everything they haven't used in the previous 12 months. I'm not talking about beautiful antiques or keepsakes with sentimental value. I'm talking about the stuff we buy that doesn't add to the fullness of our lives.
- Elaine St. James

When you discover some product that you think you have to have, put it on a 30 day wait list. At the end of 30 days, ask yourself "Do I still need it?" More often than not, we can't remember why we were so excited in the first place.
- Elaine St. James

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
- Douglas Adams

THE VALUE OF TIME
>To realize the value of one year:
- Ask a student who has failed a final exam.
To realize the value of one month:
- Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of one week:
- Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper
To realize the value of one hour:
- Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute:
- Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize the value of one second:
- Ask a person who has survived an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond:
- Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one and we are all given the same amount. Spend it with those you care for in a setting you love. Treasure every moment.

A man who owns only one watch
... knows what time it is,
But a man who has two watches
... is never quite sure.

The best laid schemes o’ mice and men
Gang aft a-gley.
- Robert Burns
Note: Gang aft a-gley is Old English/Scottish for go often awry)

Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening all at once.

The gods confound the man who first found out
How to distinguish hours.
Confound him, too,
Who in this place set up a sundial,
To cut and hack my days so wretchedly
Into small portions!
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254(?) –184 BCE)

Have you ever run across a "firefighter" - you know, one of those people who seem to thrive on running from one fire to another? Actually, firefighters only spend 3% of their time fighting fires. The rest of their time is spent in proactive activities that include preparation and preventative measures. If you are spending all your time fighting fires, perhaps you need to reassess your priorities!
- Grant M. Bright