Quotes About Prioritization

Money you spend today is money that will not be able to grow and help you reach your most important future goals

At a minimum I want you to figure out a way to set aside 15% of your pre-tax salary each and every year, starting as early as possible. If you wait until your 40s and 50s to get serious about saving, you will need to set aside 25% or more of your gross salary.

People first, then money, then things.

Accelerating your mortgage payments is something to be considered only if you are in good financial shape. That means: • You have an eight-month emergency savings fund. • You do not have any credit card debt. • You own your car outright, and you are saving for when you will need to purchase another car.

Whatever you do, put your inner work first.

But when you work long hours, you never want your children to think they're not a priority - so something else in the schedule has to give instead. Inevitably, the thing to go is time for yourself.

It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

Sometimes you have to park things you're not happy with, because there are more important things to be done.

Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.

Being a mom has affected me in the greatest way possible - and in a necessary way. Having my son has helped me to be grounded, and I feel like with a child you have to really think about things all the way through.

I take my son to school and then I drive 45 minutes to practice with my ABA team, the Florida Pit Bulls, from 10 to 1. In the afternoon, I have meetings.

Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

As soon as I wear this badge, it's really important for myself to focus on England and nothing else.

Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

I never take my work home with me, because when there is a baby in the bath at home, and you rush back for bath-time, as soon as you get through the door, you know that work is work and home is home.

My to-do list is the only form of organization I have, other than my iCal. It's not all work stuff; it's a lot of movies that I want to watch sooner rather than later. I have a list that's like, 'Read an essay from this book, then this one, then go back to this one.'

If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.

All too often, I'm sorry to say, I relegated my family to the cracks and margins.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.