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Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done QUOTES

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― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

2 " Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we choose to put into it. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

3 " The discipline of joy requires holding in the mind simultaneously that this too shall pass and that this too is good. This alchemy of mind isn't easy, but the good life is not always the easy life. Happiness requires effort. It is not just bestowed; it is the earned interest on what you choose to pay in. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

4 " Being off the clock implies time freedom, yet time freedom stems from time discipline. You must know where the time goes in order to transcend the ceaseless ticking. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

5 " 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 . . .) It is the effortful fun that makes today different, and makes today land in memory. You don’t say “Where did the time go?” when you remember where the time went. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

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

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

7 " SECRETS OF PEOPLE WITH ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Tend your garden. Make life memorable. Don’t fill time. Linger. Invest in your happiness. Let it go. People are a good use of time. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

8 " What do I like about my schedule? What would I like to spend more time doing? What would I like to spend less time doing? How can I make that happen? "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

9 " If a negative state is assumed in life, then you have to call attention to its absence. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

10 " The truth is that even ten minutes spent looking at the sky with nothing to fill the time can feel long. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

11 " Consciously lingering in pleasurable downtime reminds us that we have downtime. And that can make us feel like we have more time than when we let is slip through our hands. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

12 " The words that need to come out will come out with gentle persistence. Love, including self-love, is patient, which is really another word for being generous with time. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

13 " Strategizing boosts efficiency; planning your toughest work for the time when you have the most energy means a task might take one hour instead of two. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

14 " Work was all I did, and I realized that was upsetting.” It was upsetting philosophically—there is more to life—but it also felt financially foolish. “I live in New York City. If all I was doing was working, I could do that from anywhere. I could do that from a shack in the middle of the desert,” she says. “Why pay to live in one of the world’s most expensive cities if I wasn’t taking advantage of it? "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

15 " A mucha de la gente que siempre llega tarde le gusta complacer a otros. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

16 " La gente que llega tarde suele ser increíblemente optimista. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

17 " Calling something “work” doesn’t make it a more noble use of time than anything else. Work that doesn’t advance you toward the life you want is still wasted time. You will never get those hours back, and we only get so many. Wrote Shakespeare in Richard II, “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

18 " 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

19 " Aparentemente, saborear va de la mano con la sensación de que el tiempo pasa con más lentitud”. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

20 " La definición de saborear es reconocer que algo es agradable y que estás viviéndolo. "

― Laura Vanderkam , Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done