Quotes About Prioritization

I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

I see the other Wiggles more than I see my own family. I've learnt to be more tolerant with them, even though I'm constantly trying to organise them.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner.

A December 2018 study found that the EPA had cleared about half as many cases nationwide as it had just the previous year, FY 2017. So enfeebled, what do the enforcers still enforce? With limited resources, they go for smaller fry. My neighbors out fishing are more likely to get a citation for a leaky outboard than the insulation factory a few towns over is for swilling gallons of formaldehyde into a river.

Doing something for yourself doesn't make you selfish. My students tell me it's called self-care.

As women, we often feel we have to put our needs at the bottom of the pile. But why are we less important than others?

We are more likely to busy ourselves with finding things to do than in doing with our might the work that is in our hands already.

People who are desperate are much more effective than people who have time to waste.

STOP TRYING TO WORK THINGS OUT before their times have come. Accept the limitations of living one day at a time. When something comes to your attention, ask Me whether or not it is part of today's agenda. If it isn't, release it into My care and go on about today's duties. When you follow this practice, there will be a beautiful simplicity about your life: a time for everything, and everything in its time.

To find Me and hear My voice, you must seek Me above all else. Anything that you desire more than Me becomes an idol.

Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life. Instead, ask My Spirit to guide you moment by moment.

So much "stuff" keeps getting in the way of enjoying My Presence. You are worried and troubled about many things, but only one thing is needed. When you make Me that one thing, you choose what will never be taken away from you.

The world is so complex and overstimulating that you can easily lose your sense of direction. Doing countless unnecessary activities will dissipate your energy.

have equipped you for specific work that I will enable you to do. What things do you need to say no to in preparation for doing this work?

IN ORDER TO DO SOMETHING WELL, you need to feel at peace about the many other things you could be doing but are not.

Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging

Someone has to define what we're trying to get to and clarify which ideas are both more and less important in completing that vision.

It's a great bullshit test of any boss who says, "X is important." If she doesn't match that statement with resources, she's incompetent, insincere, or both.

Urgent problems were assigned to the developer with the least on his plate, but as these issues accumulated, I worried we'd spend more time doing maintenance than new work. All services require maintenance, but when you spend more time maintaining than growing, something is wrong.

Things that are less fun to do are usually harder to do, which means the pile isn't ordinary work but a pile of unloved, unwanted, complex work: 1. We do things we like first. 2. We do things we don't like last. 3. The things we don't like tend to be harder. 4. Late changes have cascading effects.

But long-term commitments demand short-term sacrifices. The question is, How willing are we to make the trade?

All projects are a dance between two forces, expanding to consider more ideas and shrinking to narrow things down enough to finish.

Tolerations are the seemingly inconsequential little things that drain away your energy.