Stephen Covey Quotes

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

Every day, do something that is truly important in moving you toward your goals. You must choose to invest your time in the important steps. When you take charge of your time, you take charge of your life. How you spend your time reflects your priorities.

The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Time management is really key for me.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.