Quotes About Priority

But it's actually a "way of lie," for the truth is multitasking is neither efficient nor effective. In the world of results, it will fail you every time.

The question of balance is really a question of priority. When you change your language from balancing to prioritizing, you see your choices more clearly and open the door to changing your destiny.

What's the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Extraordinary results demand that you set a priority and act on it. When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.

The challenge becomes how long you stay on your priority. To be able to address your priorities outside of work, be clear about your most important work priority so you can get it done. Then go home and be clear about your priorities there so you can get back to work.

If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t.

The ONE Thing shows up time and again in the lives of the successful because it's a fundamental truth.

Why would we ever tolerate multitasking when we're doing our most important work?

In order to be able to put the principle of The ONE Thing to work, you can't buy into the lie that trying to do two things at once is a good idea. Though multitasking is sometimes possible, it's never possible to do it effectively

They pause just long enough to decide what matters and

in the world of achievement everything doesn't matter equally. Equality is a lie.

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early

priority. FIG. 23 In business, profit and productivity are also driven by priority and purpose. Personal productivity is the building block of all business profit. The two are inseparable. A business can't have unproductive people yet magically still have an immensely

put up a sheet of paper that said, "Until My ONE Thing Is Done—Everything Else Is A Distraction!

The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest." —Bob Hawke

The Focusing Question collapses all possible questions into one: "What's the ONE Thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

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Whenever the outcome absolutely matters, I ask it. I ask it when I wake up and start my day. I ask it when I get to work, and again when I get home. What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues, with only infrequent counterbalancing to address them.

To be precise, the word is priority—not priorities—and it originated in the 14th century from the Latin prior, meaning "first." If something mattered the most it was a "priority.

Every minute of every day, the question is never will we be doing something, but rather what that something is we'll be doing.

The Focusing Question can direct you to your ONE Thing in the different areas of your life. Simply reframe the Focusing Question by inserting your area of focus. You can also include a time frame—such as "right now" or "this year"—to give your answer the appropriate level of immediacy, or "in five years" or "someday" to find a big-picture answer that points you at outcomes to aim for.

So how do you make The ONE Thing part of your daily routine? How do you make it strong enough to get extraordinary results at work and in the other areas of your life?