Quotes About Prioritization

how can I fill the bucket with the things that are really important to me?

Hacer menos trabajo fútil para concentrarse en cosas de mayor importancia personal para uno NO es pereza. Esto nos resulta difícil de aceptar a la mayoría porque nuestra cultura recompensa el sacrificio personal en lugar de la productividad personal.

Create slack, as no one will give it to you.

Is the method effective?Have you ?narrowed down your material to the highest frequency? Is the method sustainable?Have you chosen a schedule and subject matter that you can stick with (or at least put up with) until reaching fluency? Will you actually swallow the pill you've prescribed yourself?

There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).

Everybody's impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I'm not worried about my years, because I'm squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It's going to work out.

I needed to get out of my inbox and back to my own to-do list.

Telling myself the victim story allows me to vent briefly. Once I'm over it, then I realize that if this meeting was so important to me, I should have made it clear to my girlfriend that I couldn't be late, and let her know that if she was running late, I'd have to leave without her.

if you can't see your rocks on your calendar, they might as well not exist. This is doubly important for things like sleep and exercise. If you don't put those in first, no one will.

Check e-mail twice per day, once at 12:00 noon or just prior to lunch, and again at 4:00 P.M. 12:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. are times that ensure you will have the most responses from previously sent e-mail. Never check e-mail first thing in the morning.12 Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading e-mail as a postponement excuse

NR: To think big but ensure payday comes every day: cash flow first, big payday second.

determining which 20% of activities/tasks produce 80% of the results you want),

three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active?

The World Doesn't Need Your Explanation. On Saying "No": "I don't give explanations anymore, and I'll catch myself when I start giving explanations like 'Oh, I'm sorry, I can't make it. I have a doctor's appointment that day. I'm really sick. I broke my leg over the weekend' or something. I just say, 'I can't do it. I hope everything is well.

1. Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? 2. Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Make the time to do the things you want to do and then do them.

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." –Steve Jobs

How Much of Your Life Is Making Versus Managing? How Do You Feel About the Split?

Robienie rzeczy niewa?nej sprawia, ?e nie zrobisz czego? wa?nego. Zadanie wymagaj?ce czasu wcale nie staje si? wa?ne tylko z tego powodu. Od tej chwili zapami?taj sobie na zawsze, ?e to, co robisz, jest niesko?czenie wa?niejsze od tego, jak to robisz. Wydajno?? jest wa?na, ale bezu?yteczna, je?li nie odnosi si? do w?a?ciwych rzeczy.

Które 20% ?róde? powoduje 80% moich problemów i bol?czek? Które 20% ?róde? przynosi mi moje upragnione rezultaty i uszcz??liwia mnie?

What is the 20% of my belongings that I use 80% of the time? Eliminate the other 80% in clothing, magazines, books, and all else. Be ruthless—you can always repurchase things you can't live without.

Je?li chcemy mie? wi?cej czasu, musimy robi? mniej – to kluczowy warunek. Istniej? dwa sposoby osi?gni?cia tego stanu, które najlepiej zastosowa? równocze?nie: (1) przygotuj krótk? list? rzeczy do zrobienia; (2) przygotuj list? rzeczy, których nie nale?y robi?.

Przyklej na ekranie komputera samoprzylepn? karteczk? lub ustaw w Outlooku przypomnienie dotycz?ce tego, by co najmniej trzy razy dziennie zadawa? sobie pytanie: "Czy nie wyszukuj? sobie zaj?? tylko po to, by unikn?? tego, co wa?ne?

Franklin would never have been published if he'd prioritized credit over creative expression—