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WILBURN

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      Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

      OPRAH WINFREY

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      You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

      HARRIET MARTINEAU

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      Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

      GRACIE ALLEN

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      Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.

      AMELIA EARHART

      Dream On!

      Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

      BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

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      What the world really needs is more love

      and less paperwork.

      PEARL BAILEY

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      If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at the aimless procession of our busy days.

      DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER

      I want to so order my life that its impression, its impact, might always be positive and spiritually constructive.

      DOROTHY BROWN

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      For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

      MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

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      To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

      ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

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      All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.

      PROVERB

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      Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical

      plan never dies, but long after we are gone

      will be a living thing.

      LITA BANE

      It’s never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise.

      NANCY THAYER

      Take Your Life in Your Own Hands

      It’s true that life’s gifts come with responsibilities. When I don’t feel like cleaning up my desk or my car or my house or my general existence, I try to remember the people who would be desperate to have all the things I take for granted.

      RACHEL CLARKSON

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      You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

      ERICA JONG

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      Make decisions in a timely fashion—rarely does waiting improve the quality of the decision.

      ODETTE POLLAR

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      This is a wonderful world for women. The richness, the hope, the promise of life today…are exciting beyond belief. Nonetheless, we need stout hearts and strong characters; we need knowledge and training; we need organized effort to meet the future.

      BELLE S. SPAFFORD

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      When planning for a year, plant corn.When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

      CHINESE PROVERB

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      I don’t know that there are any shortcuts

      to doing a good job.

      SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR

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      I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

      MARIE CURIE

      Some Helpful How-Tos

      I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

      GOLDA MEIR

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      If only everything were as easily organized as, say, my shoe collection. And even that can sometimes be a losing battle.

      SASHA MORROW

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      There are so many options, so much to do, so many demands on women. There is no point in taking one hour to do a ten-minute task, nor should we slap together an hour-worthy project in ten minutes.

      ELAINE CANNON

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      Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

      VIRGINIA WOOLF

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      A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.

      BARBARA GLACEL

      Effective teamwork is all about making a good, well-balanced salad, not whipping individuals into a single batch of V8.

      SANDRA RICHARDSON

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      Take just a few minutes each day to sort through any miscellaneous papers on your desk at home or the office, rather than letting unorganized piles multiply and grow.

      GLADYS MORISSON

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      To achieve your dreams, remember your ABC’s: Avoid negative sources, people, places, things, and habits. Believe in yourself. Consider things from every angle.

      WANDA HOPE CARTER

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      Keep things as simple as possible…nobody wants to reorganize their system of reorganization!

      CASSIE LAWRENCE

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      If a problem has no solution,

      it’s not a problem, just a fact.

      BJ GALLAGHER

      There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

      PHYLLIS BOTTOMED

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      Adopt the highly effective SAW inbox system:

      [“S” for] STAT (as in a hospital emergency room) means “do it now!” and is for urgent tasks with a deadline of today. “A” stands for “as soon as possible” and goes on your to-do list with doable deadlines. “W” stands for “whenever” and is only for ideas and wishes for the future.

      ROBERTA LEFFLER

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      I always say don’t make plans, make options.

      JENNIFER ANISTON

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      One way to keep control over the paper in your life is to get it back in circulation. Do you have a stack of magazines that you are almost done with? Take a few moments to go through them, and then pass them on to friends, a library, a school, a hospital, or a charity thrift shop. I have a magazine “trade” system set up with some girlfriends!

      LILLIAN CRIST

      Get a 3-ring binder with pocketed dividers for receipts and user manuals, and organize by need such as “birthdays,”

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