Quotes About Prioritization

The leader cannot spend time on secondary matters while essential obligations scream for attention. A day needs careful planning.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Dont do today what you could put off till tomorrow.

There are certain things that come along that take precedence over all other events, like natural catastrophes, car accidents, and unexpected meetings with rockstars. These things suck you entirely and leave no room for you to wonder how bored or worried other people might be while you are so completely engaged.

We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.

We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

Consider how we use our time. Not everything is worth the portion of our life we give to obtain it. SOme things are better, and others are best.

Feeling the Lord magnify me professionally as I sought to serve him solidified my commitment to serve the Lord first. In doing so I learned that I could do more professionally in part of my time with His help than in all of my time without it.

Just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them. Some things are better than good, and these are the things that should command priority attention in our lives.

We should be careful not to exhaust our available time on things that are merely good and leave time for that which is better or best.

The urge to cram the maximum number of activities into the minimum amount of time, notes French cultural commentator Francois Tournier, makes us "prisoners of the present… If we do not slow down, we risk becoming alienated from our own future.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

Since it requires significant amounts of courage for someone to cut out distractions and stop giving away their attention to other people, the majority of individuals instead choose the path of cowardice.

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays." —Meredith Willson

And saying yes to this version of her life would mean saying no to another version of her life.

1.º, los clientes; 2.º, los empleados; 3.º, la comunidad, y 4.º, los accionistas de la compañía.

I told her something that I tell many of my patients, "You need to put on your own oxygen mask first before you help others." What I mean by this is you need to look out for yourself first so you can be healthy enough take care of the people you love. Thanks to some stress-management techniques and a renewed focus on her own needs, Maria lost the abdominal fat and fared much better in taking care of her mother and son.

Practice saying no to the things that are not good for you, and over time, you will find it easier to do.

What you decide not to do is probably more important than what you decide to do.

start planning how to achieve those top five goals. And the other twenty? Get rid of them.

If you're an educator, know that all times are not created equal:

Taking a Sagmeister," as I now call it, requires a fair bit of planning and saving, of course. But doesn't forgoing that big-screen TV seem a small price to pay for an unforgettable—and un-get-backable—year of personal exploration?

He said that in an attempt to understand the law—or, for that matter, just about anything—the key was to focus on what he termed the "one percent." Don't get lost in the crabgrass of details, he urged us. Instead, think about the essence of what you're exploring—the one percent that gives life to the other ninety-nine.

168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (2010) By Laura Vanderkam