Every minute counts quotes

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Monday Morning Quotes: A place where, each Monday, I'll bring my favourite quotes to send you a bit of my positivity to start the week on full power! Hope you enjoy it.

Source: Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands

I remember reading the book Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl and thinking that his idea seemed nuts; not his thesis that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between separate cultures; but the way he proved it.

In 1947, Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers sailed from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia in a pae-pae raft that they had constructed from balsa wood and other native materials, christened the Kon-Tiki. The Kon-Tiki expedition was inspired by old reports and drawings made by the Spanish Conquistadors of Inca rafts, and by native legends and archaeological evidence suggesting contact between South America and Polynesia. The Kon-Tiki smashed into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotus on August 7, 1947, after a 101-day, 4,300-nautical-mile (5,000-mile or 8,000 km)[11] journey across the Pacific Ocean. Source:Wikipedia

After reading about such journey I couldn't help but think that sailing could, indeed, be done only by following common sense and loads of sailing readings - if the Kon-Tiki didn't kill them, a good sailboat will not kill me. But this is not the subject of this post, the quote is.

This quote impacts me everytime I feel lazy early in the morning because it's cold; or when I procrastinate something; or when I leave for tomorrow something that could be done now; or when I decide to stay one more semester at my work, instead of travelling.

I realise that one minute counts, because once it's gone... it's gone.

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Have you heard the saying (or seen it printed on any number of objects) that goes a little something like, “You have the same number of hours in the day as Beyonce?”

It’s true – we all have the same amount of time each day, so how is it that some people manage to squeeze in so much while we celebrate the days where we get anything done at all? Likely, it’s due to some fine-tuned time management skills that have been applied to those peoples’ schedules that allows for them to really make the most of every minute throughout their day.

Time management is something that for most people doesn’t come naturally. Especially for those of us who work on a computer, the internet (and the world, in general!) is full of endless amounts of distractions. It’s all too easy to click over to social media and get lost in what our friends are doing for an hour before we even notice that we have gotten entirely off track.

So what do you do to ensure that you’re not only on the right track to productivity, but actually making the most of each and every moment throughout your day? Here are a few things that I recommend:

1. Prioritize each task on your to-do list

   If you keep a to-do list, you’re already on the right track. You have each of your tasks listed out before you so that you know each thing that you need to get done throughout your day. However, you can take it one step further and actually prioritize each of those tasks to make sure that those important tasks get taken care of and that you’re able to fit in everything in between.

2. Be conscious of your spare minutes

   What do you spend the most amount of time on? Is it the big tasks that you complete each day? Is it the smaller tasks that you’re able to knock out in ten minutes or less? Actually, when people keep track of how they spend each and every minute, they found that most of their time was actually spent transitioning from one task to the next. We all know how hard it is to switch mindsets as we move on to something new, so maybe throw in a quick and easy task that won’t derail your entire day.

3. Limit unproductive distractions

   Although you may feel like checking out the news or how your website traffic has been is being productive, studies have shown that each time you get distracted it takes a minimum of 10 minutes before you actually feel back into the mindset of what you were working on. Instead of giving into the temptation of those distractions, power through what you’re doing and promise yourself that you’ll be able to check out what you want if you can just get through the work that you have to do. You’ll find that you’re able to complete entire tasks in less time if you set limits for yourself and your acceptable distractions.

How do you make sure that you’re getting the most time out of your day? Do you have a method for managing each minute?

Leave your thoughts in the comments section or head over to Facebook or Twitter to join in on the conversation!

Make Every Minute Count

Your mind is your most precious asset. You must be continually working to increase the quality of your thinking.

Turn Driving Time Into Learning Time
One of the best ways is to turn driving time into learning time. Listen to educational audios in your car. The average driver according to the American Automobile Association, drives 12,000 to 25,000 miles each year, spending 500 to 1000 hours that you spend each year in your car. That is the equivalent of 12 1/2 to 25 40-hour weeks. This is the same as two full university semesters spent behind the wheel of your car each year.

If you did nothing but use that traveling time as learning time, this decision alone could make you one of the best educated people of your generation. Many people have gone from rags to riches simply by listening to audio programs as they drive to and from work.

Attend Every Seminar You Can
In addition, for personal and professional development, you should attend every seminar you can. You can often save yourself 100’s of hours of reading and researching by attending a seminar given by an authority in his or her field. You can learn ideas, techniques and methods that can save you hours, days, even months of hard work and research on your own.

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Remember, to earn more, you must learn more. Your outer world of results will always correspond to your inner world of preparation. I’ve always loved the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow where he describes those who achieve great things with their lives:

“Those heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept were toiling upward in the night”

Remember, continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to put these ideas to work in your life immediately.

First, purchase an audio program that can help you to be happier and more effective today. Begin listening to it immediately. Resolve never to listen to music in your car when you can turn driving time into learning time.

Second, seek out seminars and training programs given by experts in your field. Sit close to the front, take careful notes, and apply the best ideas that you learn immediately.

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You’ve probably heard of ‘mindfulness’ over the past few years. It’s become incredibly popular in the western world thanks to countless research studies showing its benefits.

For those of you who don’t know, mindfulness is simply paying attention to the present moment in a non-judgemental way. While it can certainly get more complex than that, if you focus on being present in the moment, you’ll be well on your way to reaching enlightenment according to Zen masters.

Here are 20 powerful mindfulness quotes that will inspire you to make the most of every second:

1) “This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” – Alan Watts

2) “The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.” – Eckhart Tolle

3) “Wherever you are, be there totally.” – Eckhart Tolle

4) “I’m here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.” – Pema Chödrön

5) “The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality… is the highest act of wisdom.” – D.T. Suzuki

6) “If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!” – Thich Nhat Hanh

7) “Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.” – Maezumi Roshi

8) “If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.” – B. D. Schiers

9) “My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.” – Byron Katie

10) “Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.” – Eckhart Tolle

11) “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” – Eckhart Tolle

12) “When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.” – Shunryu Suzuki

13) “The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.” – Alan Watts

14) “When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.” – Eckhart Tolle

15) “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

16) “Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.” – Ramana Maharshi

17) “The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.” – Pema Chodran

18) “You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” – Eckhart Tolle

19) “Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.” – Sylvia Boorstein

20) “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein