Final Cause Quotes

“I recommend that you look at the tasks you are doing throughout your day and ask yourself if these things are bringing you closer to your goals?”
― Richie Norton

“Most people will passively do today, this week, this month this year...exactly what they did yesterday, last week, last month, last year. Whatever you do, don’t let that person be you.⁣⁣”
― Richie Norton

“Final Cause is the reason, the interest in why you do what you do, your hope for how things turn out—how you imagine your best future. Final Cause is more than the goal of the goal—it’s the effectual living beyond the goal. Final Cause is the success after the success. Final Cause is the place where your time is spent on your values. Final Cause is where misaligned commitments are reexamined. Final Cause is purpose. Final Cause helps you integrate your purpose into everything you do—even before you’ve finished the puzzle to your big-picture dream. Puzzles are put together one piece at a time, not in one big block—and so are dreams. Final Cause helps you identify the big-picture dream, and Time Tipping helps you put together the oddly shaped interlocking pieces. The mosaic of our dreams draws closer as we draw the mosaic wide awake. Final Cause is your intangible expression of joyful living—that feeling of starting something new harmonizing with the fulfillment of accomplishment. To Time Tippers, Final Cause is not the end—it’s both the end and the beginning. The end informs the beginning so you can begin living the values of the end from the beginning.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Final cause is the success after the success. Always step over success to begin with final cause.”
― Richie Norton

“What's the goal AFTER the goal? Start there.”
― Richie Norton

“Aristotle called Final Cause—the sake of which a thing is done.”
― Richie Norton

“Final Cause lives beyond your goals—the sake for which you make goals in the first place. You don’t work for work’s sake. You work for something else.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Act from your future, not toward it.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“No one is more productive than a procrastinator with an impending deadline.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Scalability inherently requires your functional ability not to be present.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Ghost steps in time management are measuring things and getting efficient at it when it doesn’t need to be done at all. Ghost steps can show up as to-do lists, but they can also show up as
major projects that don’t need to be done and everything in between.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Goals inside experience are tasks. Goals outside experience are growth.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Final Cause: What would success look like for you after you've achieved the goal?”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Get beyond goals, habits and strengths, not behind.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Move beyond the traditional goal, habit, and strengths-management hysteria. Goals, habits and strengths are means, not ends. Don't turn means into ends unto themselves.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Recognize fear for what it is and allow your Final Cause (your compelling vision) for what you're doing be bigger than the fear itself. A mama bear will face anything to protect her cubs.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Your life is undeniably led by the questions you ask. Ask a better question. Get a better answer.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“She chanted the incantation as purifying white flames consumed her body. Dying, she prayed her invocation would destroy the Atrox.
Her heartbeat slowed and something let go. She rose above her apartment into the night. Death was nothing more than the separation of the body from the mind. Joy transported her and she embraced the white moonlight.”
― Lynne Ewing, The Talisman