Do Not Confuse "Urgent" with "Important"

 

Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Do Not Confuse "Urgent" with "Important."

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

Either Accept It, or Change It

Perspective on Priorities

Choose Your Focus
    

Focus on what's REALLY Important

Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

Either Accept It, or Change It

Perspective on Priorities

Choose Your Focus
    

The Truly Important

 

Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

Either Accept It, or Change It

Perspective on Priorities

Choose Your Focus
    

Choose Your Own Priorities in Life

Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

Either Accept It, or Change It

Perspective on Priorities

Choose Your Focus
    

Question What is REALLY Important

Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

Either Accept It, or Change It

Perspective on Priorities

Choose Your Focus
    

Create Your Own Future

Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda

Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Where Do You Want To Go?

Thinking as Creation

How To Cope With Life

Create Light for Others

Find God in Silence
    

Don't let "Experts" Stiffle Your Creativity

I want to be very clear that today's Daily Inspiration Quotes refers only to not letting
"experts" stifle your creativity and goals. PLEASE trust the medical experts
(and not the politicians) regarding the COVID19 pandemic, it is still spreading
exponentially in the United States and Europe, and places like India and Africa 
are going to get hit hard.

Please Stay Home (especially if you are over 60 or have a medical condition)!
Protect yourself, your family, and your community by minimizing all contact.

Take precautions, but try not to worry.

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert A. Heinlein

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
- Steve Ballmer (CEO Microsoft in April 30, 2007 interview)

If stock market experts were so expert,
they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
- Norman Ralph Augustine

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

No statement should be believed [solely] because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
- Tom Hopkins

Don't Let "Experts" Throw Cold Water on Your Dreams.

Further reading: The Illusion of Knowledge

Don't Be Too Sure

Be an Instrument of Change

Success Tip: Drive Change
    

What is REALLY Important?

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Either Accept It, or Change It

Choose Your Focus

Perspective on Priorities

Don't Sweat The Small Stuff
    

Your True Priorities Must Not Be Driven By Urgency Or By Others

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life.
Your True Priorities Must Not Be Driven By Urgency Or By Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Perspective on Priorities

Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

Choose Your Focus

Either Accept It, or Change It
    

The Most Important Things

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Choose Your Focus

Perspective on Priorities

Either Accept It, or Change It

Don't Sweat The Small Stuff
    

Knowledge Evolves

I remind myself every morning:
Nothing I say this day will teach me anything.
So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
- Larry King

Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you will never cease to grow.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong
process of keeping abreast of change.
And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
- Peter Drucker

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
- Gene Wolfe

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

Further reading: Lifelong Learning

The Illusion of Knowledge

Question Your Questions

How Life Teaches

Conscious Learning
    

Creating Your Inspired Future

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Thinking as Creation

Create Light for Others

Where do you want to go?

Coping With Life

Finding God in Silence
    

What is Really Important?

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life.

Further reading: Choose Your Focus

Perspective on Priorities

Either Accept It, or Change It

Don't Sweat The Small Stuff
    

Don't Let "Experts" Throw Cold Water on Your Dreams

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert A. Heinlein

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
- Steve Ballmer (CEO Microsoft in April 30, 2007 interview)

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
- Tom Hopkins

If stock market experts were so expert,
they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
- Norman Ralph Augustine

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Don't Let "Experts" Throw Cold Water on Your Dreams.

Further reading: Don't Be Too Sure

Success Tip: Drive Change

Be an Instrument of Change

The Illusion of Knowledge
    

Using Your Time Wisely

Don't Sweat The Small Stuff.
- Richard Carlson
Read several of Richard Carlson's 100 ideas from Don't Sweat The Small Stuff.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles
and important matters as important.
- Doris Lessing

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Focus

Demands of the World

Know The Difference

What Really Matters?

The Power Of Choice

Knowledge is Soon Changed

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
- Gene Wolfe

I remind myself every morning:
Nothing I say this day will teach me anything.
So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
- Larry King

Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you will never cease to grow.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong
process of keeping abreast of change.
And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
- Peter Drucker

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

Further reading: The Illusion of Knowledge

Lifelong Learning

How Life Teaches

Question Your Questions

Conscious Learning

Choose Your Priorities

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles
and important matters as important.
- Doris Lessing

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

Don't Sweat The Small Stuff.
- Richard Carlson
Read several of Richard Carlson's 100 ideas from Don't Sweat The Small Stuff.

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Focus

Know The Difference

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

What Really Matters?

Demands of the World

The Power Of Choice

Priorities

Focus

Attention

Focus

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker

We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson

The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Be Here Now

Seize The Day

How to Motivate Yourself

How to be Successful in Business

Pay Attention

Focus

Choose

The Center

You Are The Pilot

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler

Further reading: Break Old Patterns of Action

How to Cope With Life

Eight Rules for Living Your Greatest Life

Hard Work

Plans are only good intentions unless
they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- Harry Golden

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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