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81 " La diversión que implica esfuerzo es lo que hace que el día de hoy sea distinto y que aterrice en la memoria. "
― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done
82 " Aparentemente, saborear va de la mano con la sensación de que el tiempo pasa con más lentitud”. "
83 " 26. Es bueno usar el tiempo en la gente. "
― Laura Vanderkam , What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings--and Life
84 " become deeply engaged in their team’s project, and "
― Laura Vanderkam , What the Most Successful People Do at Work: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Career
85 " La definición de saborear es reconocer que algo es agradable y que estás viviéndolo. "
86 " Para cada día de una semana completa, planea una actividad de entre 10 y 20 minutos que involucre algo que te parezca disfrutable. Éstas son algunas opciones: Observar la puesta de sol. Sentarse en la terraza de una cafetería para tomar una buena taza de capuchino. Visitar una librería en tu hora de comida. Ir a pasear a un parque cercano. "
87 " As Anatole France once wrote, “Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. "
― Laura Vanderkam , What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend: A Short Guide to Making the Most of Your Days Off (a Penguin Special from Portfolio)
88 " One recent University of Maryland study found that unhappy people watched 20 percent more television than happy ones. Unhappy people like to escape. "
― Laura Vanderkam , 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
89 " What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast), "
― Laura Vanderkam , I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time
90 " Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take. "
91 " Conscious fun takes effort. This seeming paradox—Why should fun be work?—stops us in our tracks. So we overindulge in effortless fun (scrolling through Instagram posts about dinner parties), and underindulge in effortful fun (throwing a dinner party ourselves). But “although minutes spent in boredom or anxiety pass slowly,” writes Grudin, “they nonetheless add up to years which are void of memory. "
92 " En cuanto las actividades se hacen habituales, comienzan a operar como procesos automáticos, los cuales consumen menos fuerza de voluntad. "
93 " What the most successful people know about weekends is that life cannot happen only in the future. It cannot wait for some day when we are less tired or less busy. If you work long hours, then weekends are key to feeling like you have a life that is broader than your professional identity—even if, and probably because, you take that identity very seriously. The marathoner knows that rest days and cross-training days spur physical breakthroughs. "
94 " If you do have a job you like, if you’re happy in life, you don’t need those materialistic things to make you happy,” he says. "
95 " Finalmente, el autocontrol te permite relajarte porque elimina el estrés y te da la capacidad de conservar fuerza de voluntad para enfrentar los desafíos importantes. "
96 " As with the principals tracking their time, it is this second step, envisioning how a schedule could look, and the third step, holding yourself daily to this design, that leads to time freedom. "
97 " Constantly minding time is more challenging than letting it slip unnoticed into the past. It is also never done. "
98 " We seized the opportunity to take a grown-ups-only hiking trip in Acadia National Park. "
99 " Rich memories can expand time both as they are being created and in the rearview mirror. "
100 " I have also learned—through hard experience—that there is no virtue in putting something on a to-do list and then not doing it. It’s just as not done as if it were never on the list in the first place, only now it’s sitting there, mocking me in its undoneness. "
― Laura Vanderkam , The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work from Home