Quotes About Prioritization

Considering all that competes for your time and attention, if you don't actively take steps to simplify your life and carve out what I call "breathing space," you will most certainly find yourself in a perpetual state of overwhelm.

No one chooses to be overwhelmed, but they sure as heck allow it to happen.

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will.

Something is easy not to do when it won't bankrupt you, destroy your career, ruin your relationships or wreck your health—today.

The simple things that lead to success are all easy to do. But they're also just as easy not to do.

There's always more to build than we have time or resources to build — always.

Globo.com is good at it. That's not because the company is faster than everyone else — sure, it's fast, but it's not that fast. It's because it's smart about doing less.

I had to work hard to figure out the least I could build to make people happy.

It all seems important. But then we step back and think about the specific people who will use our product, and what they'll need to accomplish to be successful. We distill that into a sentence or two. Then we carve away everything we don't need, and we're shocked at how small our viable solution really is. It's magic

Slice out a release strategy. Remember: there's always too much to build.

My job is to Ã¢â'¬Â¦ do my job. Lead, for God's sake. Keep my nose out of places where the machine is working, and stick it in deep where it isn't.

Empty away your many thoughts to make room for more needed material instead of thoughts that we will never use. Einstein

Do the next thing." I don't know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety than that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom. Do the next thing. That has gotten me through more agonies than anything else I could recommend.

Bob comes into the office with a smear of grease on his white shirt over the bulge of his beer gut, and he's talking nonstop about what's going on with the breakdown of the automatic testing machines. "Bob," I tell him, "forget about that for now.

Remember to take time for God—it is life's only lasting investment.

The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.

The most important step to living a better life is to choose to put God first daily.

I sit in the driver's seat concerning most of the structure of my every day, including growing in the Lord. I decide whether the things of the Lord are really that important to me…or not. I decide whether I will make the effort to grow…or not. I decide whether I will schedule in the time it takes to grow, to meet with God regularly, to stop, look, and listen to Him by reading my Bible…or not.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow—for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up.

My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely).

Dessutom kunde jag inte glömma vad min syster en gång hade sagt till mig medan hon ammade: ''Att skaffa barn är som att skaffa sig en tatuering i ansiktet. Man måste vara bergsäker på att det är så man vill ha det innan man sätter igång.