Quotes About Prioritization

If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence.

they put stuff down based on their immediate need, rather than based on a sequence of needs.

problems, your challenges, your obstacles, your goals, and your ideas in writing. Make small lists such as a: To-do list. Everything you need to do, big and small. To-call list. Everyone you need to call, major and minor. To-get over list. Baggage in your life, empty and full. To-resolve list. Things that need decision or resolution. To-pay list. All matters of money you think about, paid and unpaid.

In order for you to be the BEST you can be for others, first you must be BEST for yourself.

They started with no budget and had to justify every cost—and were told that only those costs that were absolutely essential to making product for the customer would be approved.

The experience of learning how to Relabel, Reframe, Refocus, and Revalue was eye-opening for them because it allowed them to see that their time could be better spent on other pursuits and in healthier ways.

Actually putting your people first and treating them as if they matter to the organization's success, although easy to talk about and easy to understand, is notoriously difficult to implement.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first.

Jesus, may there be less of me and my junk and more of You and Your kingdom." I will reduce, so He can increase.

Thank you for inviting me into this good thing of yours. It is as extraordinary as you are. But any new yes I give means a no to my family and sanity. Please accept my sincere regrets and count on my prayers,

Serving together revolutionized our marriage. If one is ahead, prioritize patience and nag-resistance. God isn't a wedge between spouses; if you aren't walking side by side, I believe God will wait for you both. Press Pause. Don't give the spiritual depth to your church or friends and leave housekeeping leftovers for your man. Grow together, learn together, seek together, serve together. This is the most eternal portion of your union; treat it with utmost care.

It was hard to make room for my friends. But I did it.

You can take your life wherever you want it to go, so grab it by its nether regions and make doing the things you love a priority.

Do what you can do in joy, instead of trying to do it all in misery.

aren't a selfish person for taking care of yourself, just a happier one.

If you're all over the place, you're half-assing a bunch of different things instead of kicking ass at one thing.

Figure out how you're going to get rich, make the no-nonsense decision to keep going until you reach your goal, and, as part of your reward, you'll get to do all the other things you couldn't do while you were busy sticking by your decision to get rich.

Chunk your to-dos down into bite-sized pieces.

Chunking down your time and demanding that you focus on one thing and one thing only creates urgency, maximizes your productivity, and frees up more time for you to do other things.

If you feel like you have all the time in the world to do something, you will take all the time in the world. If you have twenty minutes, the task will take you twenty minutes. Chunking down your time and demanding that you focus on one thing and one thing only creates urgency, maximizes your productivity, and frees up more time for you to do other things.

This is why they always tell you on airplanes that you have to put your oxygen mask on first before you help someone else with theirs. They have to remind us of this because it's counterintuitive—unless you are a sociopath, it's your nature to help.

But if I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.

You should never start something when you haven't finished the last thing. People feel used that way.