It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of us use our calendars all wrong: we don’t schedule work; we schedule interruptions. Meetings get scheduled. Phone calls get scheduled. Doctor appointments get scheduled. You know what often doesn’t get scheduled? Real work. All those other things are distractions. Often, they’re other people’s work. But they get dedicated blocks of time, and your real work becomes an orphan.

– Eric Barker, author of Barking Up the Wrong Tree