Quotes About Prioritization

The danger for high-achieving people is that they'll unconsciously allocate their resources to activities that yield the most immediate, tangible accomplishments.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward.

The resource allocation process determines which deliberate and emergent initiatives get funded and implemented, and which are denied resources.

The problem is, lifestyle demands can quickly lock in place the personal resource allocation process.

Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

The logic is, for example, "I can invest in my career during the early years when our children are small and parenting isn't as critical. When our children are a bit older and begin to be interested in things that adults are interested in, then I can lift my foot off my career accelerator. That's when I'll focus on my family." Guess what. By that time the game is already over.

At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low.

Si el hombre en medio de todo este torbellino de estímulos quiere sobrevivir y resistir a los medios de comunicación de masas, debe saber qué es o no lo importante, qué es o no lo fundamental; en una palabra, qué es lo que tiene sentido y qué es lo que no lo tiene.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

Serial innovators don't fall into the tinkering trap. They don't try to fix everything that's broken or improve things that aren't running perfectly. Instead, they focus on fixing the things that will make the biggest difference.

Your time, energy, and money always go to what's important to you.

That's your problem! No list. We are going to fix that now. Make a list of what is important to you. Write down everything that really matters to you.

I made a deal that I would spend money on only one thing: getting smarter. I bought books. I would skip a meal and skip watching television, but I wouldn't skip an investment in my brain.

If you'd see my schedule, you'd know I have no time to slow down.

Yeah, but I love you more than football and basketball.

Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

Ambrose Redmoon wrote, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision that something else is more important than fear.

If you spend time taking care of yourself instead of him, you're more likely to be receptive, grateful, and happy.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

then is that not life in its simplest form? That so little matters so much, and so much matters so little.

I don't have time to ruins others lives. I'm too busy making my own better.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. –PETER F. DRUCKER

Rather than dividing your attention between twenty goals and doing none of them well, pick one to three goals and execute them brilliantly. Multitasking works no better for team achievement than it does for individual productivity; you're better off single-tasking in a fierce, focused way.

Since life comes up and emergencies happen, making success possible hinges on two things: being choosy about each day's priority list, and developing an accountability system that works.