Quotes About Prioritization

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things on it.

Enough is…Maybe this is selfish, but I don't want to love more than I am loved. And I don't want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me.

A woman should never please other people at the expense of pleasing herself.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

Keeping the Gods first doesn't mean that you withdraw from life, rather it informs every aspect of the way you engage with living.

Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness.

A race car driver must be very selfish. It is a cold truth: even his family must came second to the race.

success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Not everything matters equally, and success isn't a game won by whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis.

When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn't actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Leaving some things undone is a necessary tradeoff for extraordinary results.

The reason we shouldn't pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes.

Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that's meaningful.

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

Multitasking is a scam.

the key to success isn't in all the things we do but in the handful of things we do well.

Your talent and abilities are limited resources. Your time is finite. If you don't make your life about what you say yes to, then it will almost certainly become what you intended to say no to.

Purpose, meaning, significance—these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. The act of living a full life by giving time to what matters is a balancing act.

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

GOING SMALL If everyone has the same number of hours in a day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? How do they do more, achieve more, earn more, have more? If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others? The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach. They go small.

vital few and trivial many.