How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order — willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

Getting your schedule to reflect your Future Self is a major and important step that very few people fully embrace. It will never be convenient to stop the firehose of lesser goals. They will never stop coming. Most externally successful people still fall into the trap of being managed by time, rather than owning and creating their experience of time.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.” –Annie Dillard

Basic control over your schedule breeds balance.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim,

Whoever runs your schedule is the most important person in your world as Leader. You need time to think, time to study and time to get the things done you came to leadership to do. Lose control of the schedule and you will fail.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

Ideally, most of the top executives of a company should be on Foundational tours.

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.

As opposed to a curious person who explores first then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications.

when we schedule time for something, what we’re actually doing is simply deciding when we will invest our attention and energy into the task.

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.