Quotes About Priorities

Of the many, many excuses people use to rationalize why they can't do something, the excuse "I am too busy" is not only the most inauthentic, it is also the laziest. I

when you're very competitive, you get good at the thing you're competing with people on. But it comes at the expense of losing out on many other things.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." –Henry David Thoreau

Yes, I know we're all very busy, but what, exactly, is getting done? Are all those people running late for meetings and yelling on their cell phones stopping the spread of malaria or developing feasible alternatives to fossil fuels or making anything beautiful?

lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

I had to get back to this place where you just want water, food, and shelter. All the craziness of my life—this Wall Street life I had taken on—would go away, would melt away.

lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware

Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.

When 99 percent of your life is your work, either you are really bad at what you do or you are completely off balance with the rest of your life; neither is something to be proud of.

Life will go faster than you know. It will be tempting to live a life that impresses others.

Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a millionaire?

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. —STEVE JOBS,

Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

La vida es demasiado corta para tenerla ocupada.

What will matter to me in six months, a year, five years? What is essential, and what is optional, in my life priorities?

Cuáles son las verdaderas metas últimas de mi vida, y cómo puedo optimizar para alcanzarlas?".»

Así que el filtro se fija automáticamente para tu nombre, porque eso es lo que más te importa.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

No me preocupará perder un amigo si tengo cien, pero si tengo dos amigos sí me preocuparé. No me preocupará perder mi trabajo si mi jefe número uno me despide porque tengo miles de jefes en periódicos de todas partes.

Life is too short to be busy.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." –Henry David Thoreau American essayist and philosopher, author of Walden "What gets measured gets managed." –Peter Drucker Considered "the founder of modern management," author of The Effective Executive "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike." –Oscar Wilde Irish writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

When 99 percent of your life is your work, either you are really bad at what you do or you are completely off balance with the rest of your life; neither is something to be proud of. Anytime you see someone preaching, remember that this is smoke and mirrors.

we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.