Quotes About Prioritization

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves

Your crises and problems would shrink to manageable proportions because you would be thinking ahead, working on the roots, doing the preventive things that keep situations from developing into crises in the first place. In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

trying to prioritize activities before you even know how they relate to your sense of personal mission and how they fit into the balance of your life is not effective.

Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

Keep in mind that when you're working with your family, "slow" is "fast" and "fast" is

Your planning tool should be your servant, never your master.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management

It's a principle you can see validated in your own life when you burn the candle at both ends to get more golden eggs and wind up sick or exhausted, unable to produce any at all; or when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.

would do more strategic, proactive recruiting and selecting. When you are buried by the urgent and have a thousand balls in the air, it is so easy to put people that appear to have solutions into key positions. The tendency

It deals with things like building relationships, writing a personal mission statement, long-range planning, exercising, preventive maintenance, preparation—all those things we know we need to do, but somehow seldom get around to doing, because they aren't urgent.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

That's right. So you have to weigh that consequence against the other consequence and make a choice. I know if it were me, I'd choose to go on the tennis trip. But never say you have to do anything.

The very language of "daily planning" focuses on the urgent—the "now." While third generation prioritization provides order to activity, it doesn't question the essential importance of the activity in the first place—it doesn't place the activity in the context of principles, personal mission, roles, and goals.

Question 1: What one thing could you do (something you aren't doing now) that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life? Question 2: What one thing in your business or professional life would bring similar results?

Before you read further, take a few minutes to jot down your impressions.

For many of us, there's a gap between the compass and the clock— between what's deeply important to us and the way we spend our time.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." No

Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.

Highly effective people do not really manage time—they manage themselves.

it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

if you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them, to stay with your priorities and organization?

el término «administración del tiempo» es en realidad una denominación poco afortunada; el desafío no consiste en administrar el tiempo, sino en administrarnos a nosotros mismos.

first—private victory before public victory.

Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action. They're often popular with others. They're usually right in front of us. And often they are pleasant, easy, fun to do. But so often they are unimportant!