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“You cannot begin, until you begin.”
― Tony Cleaver, A Chain of Flames

“If we could see our lives from God's perspective, many of us would be forced to admit that our lives are cluttered with all sorts of things that keep us from moving forward and receiving the abundant life he promises. We need to simplify our lives, eliminating the things that bog us down and keep us from doing what God says are priorities.”
― Randy Carlson, The Power of One Thing: How to Intentionally Change Your Life

“Good things happen not by managing time but by prioritizing attention.”
― Richie Norton

“The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“Successful living requires prioritizing.”
― Bill Munn

“Start doing more by doing less.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness

“It's easy to confuse what's important with what's easy to measure.”
― Logan Smalley

“The key to a simple life is to prioritize what matters most.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

“He shuffled through the list of messages, prioritizing them into three piles: now, later, and some other time.”
― Kenneth Eade, And Justice?

“Prioritizing is paramount rather than allowing the most intrusive issues that arise to have dominance.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“When you say, ‘I don’t have the time,â€� what you’re really saying is ‘I won’t make the time.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Make one of your goals for the the New Year,
*Prioritizing on self care”
― Charmaine J Forde

“Though part of the puzzle is obviously capital budget allocations, most companies seem to have a much higher awareness of the rules by which capital and assets are allocated than they do about how skilled people should be spending their time.”
― Rita Gunther McGrath, The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty

“The former head of this operation, Gary Wendt, who is credited with much of the enormous success of GEFS, used his personal agenda as a simple but inordinately powerful tool for growing the business into ever new entrepreneurial arenas.

Over the years, he used his personal agenda to make it unequivocally clear that he expected entrepreneurial business growth from every member of management. At every major meeting, the topic of business development was on the agenda (usually in the number one spot). In every annual review, managers were asked to demonstrate the revenues they had created from businesses that did not exist five years before. From division heads to newly hired analysts, everyone was held accountable for some set of activities having to do with creating entrepreneurial revenue and profit streams. In short, no one who worked in the organization could avoid the unremitting focus on new business development.

You need to make sure that you are similarly consistent, predictable, and focused, and that you sustain this emphasis over a long period. Pressure applied only once is soon forgotten, and alternating pressure (as in flavor-of-the-month management) will cause people to be confused, disillusioned, or angry. Wendt’s consistent, visible, and predictable attention to business development created a pressure in GEFS for entrepreneurial business growth that took it from the $300 million installment loan portfolio we looked at in chapter 6 to a financial services behemoth with $250 billion in assets under management when he left in 1998.

Examples of Wendt’s single-minded determination to drive growth through entrepreneurial transformation at GEFS are numerous. Years ago, for instance, he was asked whether his agenda would change if someone rushed in and told him that the computer room was on fire (implying that his business could be completely destroyed). Wendt replied that he employed firefighters to handle such emergencies. As the leader, his most important job was to keep people focused on business development. Since business development is an uncomfortable and unpredictable process, Wendt knew that if he allowed it to appear to be a low priority for him, all those working for him would heave a sigh of relief and go back to business as usual, with new businesses struggling to find a place on the priority list. In fact, as he remarked, even if he did try to get involved in putting out the fire, he would probably only interfere with the efforts of the highly competent people employed to do so.”
― Rita Gunther McGrath, The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty

“Trying to do more than the firm is capable of handling is tantamount to doing nothing.”
― Rita Gunther McGrath, The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty

“If you spread your resources too thin, you’re failing to dedicate the attention that your priorities deserve.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Yet most of us don't allow ourselves enough time to keep learning. It just doesn't seem practical. We live in a time where everything has to produce tangible results.”
― Jim Brickman, Simple Things