Quotes About Purpose

Connecting purpose, priority, and productivity determines how high above the rest successful individuals and profitable businesses rise.

If your to-do list contains everything, then it's probably taking you everywhere but where you really want to go.

life as a series of connected choices, where our purpose sets our priority and our priority determines the productivity our actions produce.

Once you've figured out what actually matters, keep asking what matters most until there is only one thing left. That core activity goes at the top of your success list.

When you choose a big life, by default, you'll have to go small to get there. You must survey your choices, narrow your options, line up your priorities, and do what matters most. You must go small. You must find your ONE Thing.

giving the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

Live with purpose and you know where you want to go. Live by priority and you'll know what to do to get there.

Viva como um selo postal – cole-se num único objetivo até alcançá-lo." Josh

Whenever you feel lost or lacking direction, you can pull it out to remind yourself to discover what matters most.

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.

One of our biggest challenges is making sure our life's purpose doesn't become a beggar's bowl, a bottomless pit of desire continually searching for the next thing that will make us happy. That's a losing proposition.

putting together a life of extraordinary results simply comes down to getting the most out of what you do, when what you do matters.

Quiénes somos y adónde queremos ir determinan lo que hacemos y lo que conseguimos.

They pause just long enough to decide what matters and

aquello que podrías hacer y dedicarte a hacer aquello que debes hacer. Consiste en reconocer que no todas las cosas importan igual y en encontrar aquello que más importa. Es una manera de vincular más estrechamente lo que uno hace con lo que uno desea. Se basa en darse cuenta de que obtener resultados extraordinarios viene determinado directamente

As Henry David Thoreau said, "It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

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

success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life. If you can honestly say, "This is where I'm meant to be right now, doing exactly what I'm doing," then all the amazing possibilities for your life become possible.

There is an art to clearing away the clutter and focusing on what matters most. It is simple and it is transferable. It just requires the courage to take a different approach." —George Anders

Begin early with meditation and prayer for spiritual energy; starting the day by connecting with your higher purpose aligns your thoughts and actions with a larger story.

Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that's meaningful. Not everything matters equally

One of the most empowering moments of my life came when I realized that life is a question and how we live it is our answer. How we phrase the questions we ask ourselves determines the answers that eventually become our life.

We hear about balance so much we automatically assume it's exactly what we should be seeking. It's not. Purpose, meaning, significance—these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance