Quotes About Prioritization

My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.

In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses from the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get in the semi-final of the racquets championship.

55} Secondly, Thou must abhor his labouring to render the cross odious unto thee; for thou art to prefer it before the treasures in Egypt. [Heb. 11:25,26]

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

You could use the 80/20 rule. Give 80 percent of your effort to the top 20 percent (most important) activities. Another way is to focus on exceptional opportunities that promise a huge return. It comes down to this: give your attention to the areas that bear fruit.

The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That's good because if you're young you're still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you've wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be—and need to be.

The Situation Principle: Never let the situation mean more than the relationship.

I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what's really important and what isn't. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, "When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

most people overrate decision making, and they underrate decision managing.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

people who are busy rowing seldom have time to rock the boat.

TODAY GIVE YOUR TIME ONLY TO THINGS THAT PASS THE REQUIREMENT, RETURN, REWARD TEST.

If you lack self-discipline, you may be in the habit of having dessert before eating your vegetables.

Other times leaders have to hold their feelings in check. When I say that leaders should delay their emotions, I'm not suggesting that they deny them or bury them. The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others—not yourself—first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification.

We can't choose whether we will get any more time, but we can choose what we do with it.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Decide that People Are Worth the Effort:

They know that the person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.

Because I lacked the ability to prioritize correctly and bring focus to my leadership.

The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Parkinson's Law: If you have only one letter to write, it will take all day to do it. If you have twenty letters to write, you'll get them done in one day.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation of success.