Quotes About Prioritization

consider the common practice of setting up regularly occurring meetings for projects. These meetings tend to pile up and fracture schedules to the point where sustained focus during the day becomes impossible. Why do they persist? They're easier.

After thirty days of this self-imposed network isolation, ask yourself the following two questions about each of the services you temporarily quit: Would the last thirty days have been notably better if I had been able to use this service? Did people care that I wasn't using this service?

Tener claridad sobre lo importante equivale a tener claridad sobre lo que no es importante.

The Law of the Vital Few*: In many settings, 80 percent of a given effect is due to just 20 percent of the possible causes.

Once you know where your activities fall on the deep-to-shallow scale, bias your time toward the former.

These directly measurable costs, however, were the easy part of his decision. It was instead the "opportunity costs" that required more attention. As he elaborated: "If I make hay all summer, I can't be doing something else.

balance this profit against the costs measured in terms of "your life." How much of your time and attention, he would ask, must be

they start with the things they value most, then work backward to ask whether a given new technology performs more harm than good with respect to these values.

And as Jason Fried discovered, if you not only eliminate shallow work, but also replace this recovered time with more of the deep alternative, not only will the business continue to function; it can become more successful.

schedule in advance the time you spend on low-quality leisure.

What percentage of my time should be spent on shallow work? This strategy suggests that you ask it.

By taking the time consumed by low-impact activities—like finding old friends on Facebook—and reinvesting in high-impact activities—like taking a good friend out to lunch—you end up more successful in your goal.

In other words, this strategy suggests that when it comes to your relaxation, don't default to whatever catches your attention at the moment, but instead dedicate some advance thinking to the question of how you want to spend your "day within a day.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

None of us can accept all what we may be offered in this life. Sometimes we must say no, even to love.

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

The person who recognizes the strategy of Too Many Details sees the forest while simultaneously being able to see the few trees that really matter.

of. By really getting into your work, the nonessential stuff drops away.

Second, when you say, "I don't have time to do that right now," you're telling a polite lie to avoid saying, "I don't want to do that right now.

Usually when I feel like there's no time, it really means I haven't made time for myself.

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

Of all the things and people she missed lately, it was odd to find herself at the top of the list.

hen you're writing software, you have to ask, "Are we saving babies here?" If you're writing software that is actually helping babies to survive, then you should take your software really seriously. But if you're just making a shopping cart, you should turn it down a notch and take a breather. - Scott Hanselman