35 Quotes by Laura Vanderkam

Sometimes life is hard for a good reason. Sometimes narratives serve no purpose beyond keeping you from the life you want.

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.

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.

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

Am I making progress toward things that are important to me?

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.

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.

If you wait until the end of the month to save what you have left, there will be nothing left over. Likewise, if you wait until the end of the day to do meaningful but not urgent things like exercise, pray, read, ponder how to advance your career or grow your organization, or truly give your family your best, it probably won’t happen, If it has to happen, then it has to happen first”.

I believe that consciously choosing to create such memories will stretch the experience of time.