Goals & Priorities
Priorities: A priority is a ranking. (1-2-3 and A-B-C, etc. of your daily tasks. So the tasks related to your most important goals become your top priorities.)
Our goals provide our direction. Until we have established our goals much of our activity is pointless. Without goals, we have no reason to organize, ourselves and our time because we're not going anywhere in particular. It then makes no difference how long anything takes. Every activity is of equal value.
But once we have identified our goals, we are able to judge the effectiveness of or time choices. Did our choices make real progress toward our goals - or were they distractions?
Goals and time are your keys to success. You achieve success as defined in your goals - through the medium of time. Nothing approaches the motivating power of setting demanding goals and then systematically measuring progress toward achieving them.
If you don't manage your time, you'll never achieve your goals. But if you don't have goals, you don't need time because you aren't going anywhere. Top goal achievers are always top time managers.
(Lloyd Loffet)
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J. Wentworth