“If we know our priorities, we can build our routine, scripting out tomorrow today in order to maximize the time and effort spent working towards what matters.”

- Craig Ballantyne, The Perfect Day Formula

“Goal achievement has to do with only two things: Managing where your attention goes, and managing where your effort goes. That’s it. Our job is to continuously reprioritize, reorganize, and optimize those two things.”

- Sharran Srivatsaa

"Clarity Creates Power: When you know your #1 priority, you can channel all your energy toward what matters most."

- Brian Johnson, Areté

“An example of your amazing, but possibly underutilized, ability to control your motivation, not to mention your efficiency, is how you feel right before a vacation. In the time prior to taking a vacation, you're super organized. You edit the things on your to-do list to only the most necessary. You're awesome at managing your time and getting things done. It's almost miraculous how efficient you become. What would happen if you treated each workday as if you had that plane to catch for your vacation?”

- Tim and Julie Harris, Harris Rules

“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.”

- John Carmack

"Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls — family, health, friends, integrity — are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered."

- James Patterson, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

"Sometimes it's the first thing you do. Sometimes it's the only thing you do. Regardless, doing the most important thing is always the most important thing."

- Gary Keller & Jay Papasan, The ONE Thing

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Your life goals become the framework for how you prioritize and manage your time.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“Will it help you achieve your goals? Great, then do it! If not, let it go.”

- From Mindset, Model and Marketing! by Tom Ferry

“What are the most important activities that, if completed every week, will drive you to your dream life the fastest?”

- From The Perfect Week Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“What’s more important to your legacy, checking CNN headline news and ESPN sports scores or writing your first book, securing your dream job, and providing for your family?”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“The moment you check email, read the news or surf social media, someone else’s priorities jump in front of yours.”

- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins

“There are many things we want to accomplish in life, but there can be only one number one priority at a time. Know it, attack it, and focus on it every day.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“The secret is to focus on the things that matter and let the other things go.”

- From Harris Rules by Tim and Julie Harris

“It’s never about having the time, it’s about making the time.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

“Make sure you are spending more than 50% of your time on what matters most!”

- From Mindset, Model and Marketing! by Tom Ferry

“Every day you must take action that is congruent with your big goals and dreams.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“Either you run the day or it runs you.”

- From The Jim Rohn Guides Complete Set

“If you plant the wrong things, you'll harvest the wrong results.”

- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett