Quotes About Prioritization

If today your company doesn't know what its ONE Thing is, then the company's ONE Thing is to find out.

Saying yes to everyone is the same as saying yes to nothing. Each additional obligation chips away at your effectiveness at everything you try.

people and problems can chew up your time and drain your energy.

In fact, you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

You can say no with respect, you can say no promptly, and you can say no with a lead to someone who might say yes. But just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Multitasking doesn't save time —it wastes time.

The way to get the most out of your work and your life is to go as small as possible.

Tackling these tasks in the order we receive them is behaving as if the squeaky wheel immediately deserves the grease. But, as Australian prime minister Bob Hawke duly noted, "The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.

In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.

direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

To do two things at once is to do neither." —Publilius Syrus

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." — William James

It's not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it's that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

When you say yes to something, it's imperative that you understand what you're saying no to.

When people don't understand the power of the ONE Thing, they try to do too much—and because this never works over time, they end up making a horrific deal with themselves. They go for success by sacrificing their health. They stay up late, miss meals or eat poorly, and completely ignore exercise. Personal

As a result, buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others—and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.

Every minute of every day, the question is never will we be doing something, but rather what that something is we'll be doing. Sometimes

Because I want my life to matter, I approach each area by doing what matters most in it. I view these as the cornerstones of my life and have found that when I'm doing what's most important in each area, my life feels like it's running on all cylinders.

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down.

Multitasking is a lie. It's a lie because nearly everyone accepts it as an effective thing to do. It's become so mainstream that people actually think it's something they should do, and do as often as possible. We not only hear talk about doing it, we even hear talk about getting better at it. More

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. "The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest." Bob Hawke

Toying with time will lead you down a rabbit hole with no way out. Believing this lie does its harm by convincing you to do things you shouldn't and stop doing things you should. Middle mismanagement can be one of the most destructive things you ever do. You can't ignore the inevitability of time.

Pareto points us in a very clear direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

Don't focus on being busy; focus on being productive. Allow what matters most to drive your day.