Quotes About Priorities

When you're not sure where you're going or what's really important to you, you'll never know when enough is enough.

There are only so many hours per day, even as we push back the frontiers of sleeplessness. There are only so many people with whom we can maintain serious connections

Taking the inventory of your current work at all levels will automatically produce greater focus, alignment, and sense of priorities.

If you had the freedom to decide what to do, you also had the responsibility to make good choices, given your priorities. What

While Horizon 5 (purpose and principles) is obviously the most important context within which to set priorities, experience has shown me that when we understand and implement all the levels of work in which we are engaged, especially the Ground and Horizon 1 levels, we gain greater freedom and resources to do the bigger work that we're all about. If your boat is sinking, you really don't care in which direction it's pointed!

There is too much distraction at the day-to-day, hour-to-hour level of commitments to allow for appropriate focus on the higher levels.

If your boat is sinking, you really don't care in which direction it's pointed!

It's likely that you also have more internal commitments currently in play than you're aware of.

Organizations must create a culture in which it is acceptable that everyone has more to do than he or she can do, and in which it is sage to renegotiate agreements about what everyone is not doing.

Esa preocupación permanente y estéril por todas las cosas que tenemos que hacer es por sí sola la mayor consumidora de tiempo y energía. —KERRY GLEESON

Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even in a year. I

That's why I maintain a healthy skepticism when people want to get control of their work and life by "setting priorities." This is often just an attempt to sidestep responsibility for what they've been engaged with irresponsibly. My choice is always to go for cleaning up the garage of their work, their life, and their head. Then the priorities, the vision, and the plan emerge—grounded, with solid roots.

The number of coulds, shoulds, might-want-tos, and ought-tos they generate in their minds are way out beyond what they have recorded anywhere else. Many

Values are the key to living smart and finishing rich. The sooner you and your partner start putting your values first—and stuff second—the sooner the two of you will start living a life that excites and empowers you both.

The bottom line is that you and your partner are trading precious time in your life for this income. To me—and hopefully to you—that makes it critically important to ensure that you don't waste what you earn, but rather that you manage it efficiently and intelligently.

all the money in the world won't make you happy if what you do with it conflicts with your values.

Money is great to have, but all the money in the world won't make you happy if what you do with it conflicts with your values.

At the end of a lifetime's worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us?

Number of children fathered got little enough to do with being a good daddy.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal

But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.

Smart, dedicated people lost their lives all the time as they trained to be the best they could be to serve their country. Celebrities broke a nail and they immediately took to Twitter, alerting their millions of followers to the "injury," which in turn elicited thousands of replies from people with apparently not enough going on in their lives. And all the while brave men and women died in silence, forgotten by all except their families.

And he goes round with a fat roll of dollar bills, and got this nice farm, and all them fancy machines, and man let his family starve.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal

I can be fat or I can smoke. I can't be both." They

I had to try. I had to." "Why was that?" asked Reel. "Because I love her. Sometimes it's just as simple as that. And if someone can't act on love, then what does anything else really matter?