“Small Changes Stick.”
― Merlin Mann
“In talking with happy people, I found they've all figured out ways to focus on three things: Good Decisions, Good Relationships and Good Work."
― Merlin Mann
“Task are like Ducks. We should look to shoot them not store them."
― Merlin Mann
“Getting organized just means you’ve glued handles onto the various stuff in your life — you’ll still need to pick it up and carry it around from time to time.”
― Merlin Mann
"Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging."
― Merlin Mann
"Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy."
― Merlin Mann
"Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But it doesn't take long until you have acquired a pile of pebbles that's taller than you and heavier than you could ever hope to move, even if you wanted to do it over a few dozen trips. But for the person who took the time to hand you their pebble, it seems outrageous that you can't handle that one tiny thing."
― Merlin Mann
"Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement."
― Merlin Mann
"Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade."
― Merlin Mann
"Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected."
― Merlin Mann
"People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer."
― Merlin Mann
"Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality."
― Merlin Mann
"You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge."
― Merlin Mann
"Make the time to be scared of more interesting things."
― Merlin Mann
"Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite."
― Merlin Mann
"When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had."
― Merlin Mann
"Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing."
― Merlin Mann
"People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster."
― Merlin Mann
"If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve."
― Merlin Mann