If you’re at zero backlog, it’s a whole lot easier to change priorities.

Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.

Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.

Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.