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» by Nagesh Belludi

Fill the brain with high thoughts,
highest ideals, place them day and night before you,
and out of that will come great work.
* Swami Vivekananda

Music is the harmonious voice of creation;
an echo of the invisible world.
* Giuseppe Mazzini

All strangers and beggars are from God,
and a gift, though small, is precious.
* Homer

Act as if the whole election depended on your single vote.
* John Wesley

Capital isn’t so important in business.
Experience isn’t so important.
You can get both these things.
What is important is ideas.
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need,
and there isn’t any limit to what
you can do with your business and your life.
* Harvey Samuel Firestone

If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be a human being.
You’d be a game show host.
* Anonymous

Do, or do not.
There is no ‘try’.
* Yoda

Delusion arises from anger.
The mind is bewildered by delusion.
Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered.
One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.
* Bhagavadgita

We do not have to become heroes overnight.
Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up,
seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared,
discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
* Eleanor Roosevelt

If you really want the last word in an argument,
try saying, ‘I guess you’re right.’
* Anonymous

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No man who has once heartily and wholly
laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
* Thomas Carlyle

Play is the exultation of the possible.
* Martin Buber

Rain-water never stands on high ground,
but runs down to the lowest level.
So also the mercy of God remains in the hearts of the lowly,
but drains off from those of the vain and the proud.
* Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

The Spirit filled all with his radiance.
He is incorporeal and invulnerable, pure and untouched by evil.
He is the supreme seer and thinker, immanent and transcendent.
He placed all things in the path of the Eternal.
* Upanishads

Don’t worry about knowing people -
just make yourself worth knowing.
* Unknown

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived
if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in
which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a
danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose
many a battle.
* Annie Besant

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area
in which he can make and implement future decisions.
When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds
himself to the consequences of that choice.
* Marion G. Romney

Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.
* Winston Churchill

It’s not that I’m am so smart,
it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
* Albert Einstein

Thus we play the fool with the time and the
spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
* William Shakespeare

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Blogger Carla Kay White reflects on how she “found time” by transforming her mindset about being overwhelmed.

… it occurred to me that I’m feeling overwhelmed because that’s precisely the message I’m putting out in the world. I repeat it all day long in different forms “I have no time…” or “I wish I could, but I’m busy…” or “gotta rush…”

But what would happen if I simply told myself, “I have all the time in the world”?

I repeated this to myself anytime I felt rushed. Someone stopped me to chat, I had time. Working late, no problem. Caught behind a slow driver, I chilled and enjoyed the view. In the end it actually worked. I created time.

By sending out a new message “I have time” I’m relaxing, finding a new rhythm and living in the moment. I’m focusing on one thing at a time instead of ten different things. As a result, I get more accomplished, do a better job, and truly do have more time.

So if you constantly feel overwhelmed, ask yourself — are you really? Or is it just a conditional thought that you repeated so often to yourself, you believe it and live it? Just maybe you too can magically create time through your thoughts.

How to Create More Time

The feeling of being overwhelmed is primarily a lack of sense of priority over what we need to do. Follow my three-step process for better time management.

• Time Logging: Follow this simple exercise to develop an idea of how you spend time currently.
• Time Analysis: Tally up your time logs, analyze how you actually use your time, and recognize non-productive tasks and activities.
• Time Budgeting: Follow this simple process to list your life’s values and priorities. Then, create a time budget to help you center your actions on the truly important aspects of your life and career.

Recommended Reading

• Don’t let ‘perfect’ be the enemy of ‘done’
• Overcoming procrastination: the “10-minute dash” technique to get a task going
• Make your weekends feel longer

***See other articles related to time management, managing priorities, effectiveness, personal organization, getting things done, execution, work-life balance

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
* Margaret Thatcher

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot,
him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
* Dhammapada

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.
It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.
It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
* Guy Debord

When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
* Friedrich Nietzsche

We shape our environments,
then our environments shape us.
* Winston Churchill

It’s not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
Sharing what we have for the betterment of person kind,
Bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
* Leo Buscaglia

Absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.
* French Proverb

Valor is stability,
not of legs and arms,
but of courage and the soul.
* Michel de Montaigne

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty remember that God has
pitted you against a rough antagonist that you
may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
* Epictetus

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Never mistake motion for action.
* Ernest Hemingway

As the purpose is emptied the heart is filled.
* Victor Marie Hugo

A true man never frets about his place in the world,
but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature,
and swings there as easily as a star.
* Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.
* Plato

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it.
The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it -
in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
* John C. Maxwell

The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt.
* Anonymous

The best thing a leader can do for a Great Group
is to allow its members to discover their greatness.
* Warren Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman

The true purpose of education is to cherish and
unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us;
to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of
every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
* Anna Jameson

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
* Thomas Jefferson

Be careful what you pretend to be,
because you are what you pretend to be.
* Kurt Vonnegut

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As the sun that beholds the world is untouched by earthly impurities,
so the Spirit that is in all things is untouched by external sufferings.
* The Upanishads

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,
while bad people will find a way around the laws.
* Plato

It is astonishing how short a time it
takes for very wonderful things to happen.
* Frances Hodgson Burnett

It is said that when the world ends, even the moutains start moving
due to the force of the wind.
But even when such a thing happens, the mental state of the brave
does not waver since it is very clear.
Clarity in thoughts gives you the strength to withstand anything.
* Subhashita

A year from now you may wish you had started today.
* Karen Lamb

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
* Aristotle

You can make your mind recall anything you want,
but it can only give back what it was first given.
* Unknown

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
* Arabian proverb

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too
high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and
achieving our mark.
* Michelangelo

Courage is capacity to
confront what cannot be imagined.
* Leo Calvin Rosten

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