Quotes about Prioritization

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

Whether before breakfast or after, morning or evening, the point is we must all arrange our schedules to provide for this daily intake of the Word of God.

As David told a friend one day, "I'm working so hard to live where we want to live that I don't actually get to live there." As

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly.

But in the areas that matter most, a burst of energy and activity cannot reverse the consequences that accompany a season of neglect.

There's never any cumulative value to all the things we do instead of the things we know are truly important.

There is a cumulative value to investing small amounts of time in certain activities over a long period. There are rarely any immediate consequences for neglecting single installments of time in any arena of life. Neglect has a cumulative effect. here is no cumulative value to the urgent things we allow to interfere with the important things. If all of this is true, and time equals life, what is the wise thing to do as it relates to your time?

If anything has kept me on track all these years, it's being skewered to this principle of central focus. There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination. (emphasis added) As you evaluate your current leadership environment and responsibilities, what do you see that needs to be eliminated? What needs to be delegated? What would it "not be right" for you to continue doing?