Sentences with phrase «priority than the things»

Those kinds of tasks can end up sitting on your work plan for weeks, since they are always lower priority than the things due right now.

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OneTask runs on a concept called «singletasking,» which calls for the worker to focus on one thing at a time rather than constantly shifting priorities and projects.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

One thing that might help in this respect is to have a better service experience for customers than the big players offer, said Heger, pointing out that American provider Sprint made this a major priority and subsequently improved its financial performance.

«There are higher priorities, things that he is more concerned about than whether or not the Americans stay in the [agreement].»

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

Despite the limping conclusion (he is writing for Commonweal, after all), Steinfels has nailed the mindlessness of a progressive insouciance that thinks it a good thing that, in the words of one author, younger Catholics «place a higher priority on being good Christians than they do on being good Catholics,» when «good Christian» is indistinguishable from the cultural liberalism promoted by, for instance, the National Catholic Reporter.

This is evidenced in such things as Barth's eschatologically oriented framework of creation, reconciliation and redemption; his focus on promise and hope rather than the present possession of God's reign; the reconfiguration of experience as a determination toward the future; the placing of the divine summons to action — the ethical life — at the summit of each volume of his doctrinal work; and, above all, his refusal to make his theology an apology for Christendom or to give priority to the established church.

In fact, most (63 %) said it was «diverting the church from more important things,» and, in a list of church priorities, ranked sexuality issues lower than creating disciples of Christ, spiritual growth, youth involvement, members» spiritual growth, decline in membership, poverty, children at risk, and social injustice.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The fact that Marie Kondo places more importance on tidying her things than using them should give you a pretty good sense of how alien her priorities are.

«I think there are enough county legislators who don't see Kingston as a priority who would make things much more difficult than the deal we have now,» said Carey.

We also know that every sane person will do things according to priority, and improving the welfare of the majority should have mroe priority than allocating outrageous amounts for feeding the selectecd few and their friends.

On the controversial topic of Lords reform, Cameron told MPs it was included in the Queen's speech because while it was not the government's first priority, he believed parliament was capable of doing more than one thing at once.

Susan Albers, author of Eating Mindfully, suggests that in our fast - paced world, attentiveness to the things you «have to do takes on a greater priority than what is going on internally.»

I'm definitely learning how to make things priorities, and to MAKE time for things rather than «finding» time happy Monday!

For women, comfort should be your first priority as you will have more important things to be thinking about rather than fidgeting in a dress that's maybe too tight or inappropriate.

Recently Market Watch released some data on GTA 5, and even if they weren't quite right about it being the most profitable media product, they did show that PC sales account for only 2.1 % of all shipped copies, meaning there isn't that huge a market for it on this platform, and that won't exactly mark the PC as a priority, even if 2.1 % of 90,000,000 copies sold is 1,890,000, more than some other games sell in their lifetimes.One thing is for certain - if we ever do get a PC port of RDR2, it will only be officially confirmed after the game's initial release, considering how many extra sales GTA 5 raked in with people buying the same game over and over for multiple platforms...

Teachers want to do the right thing for kids; student ideas and priorities may have more sway than those of administrators.

A major plus is a «build - your - own» plan that allows you to insure based on your priorities, rather than some pre-determined plan that covers things that don't apply to your trip.

A major plus is a «build - your - own» plan that allows you to insure based on your priorities, rather than some pre-determined plan that covers things that don't apply to your trip.

Two things will become blatantly clear after playing this game for only a short while: realism is the top priority, and Sam Fisher is far more agile than what you're used to controlling in 3rd person action / adventure games.

We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources.

Lomborg sets up false dilemmas to make it look like we can't do more than one thing at a time, and then applies spin and misrepresentations to alter peoples» sense of priorities.

The original UNIX guys had their own priorities, and would respond far less politely than Gavin does to outsiders crashing in telling them how to do things, and their track record was good enough to let them do that, just as GISS's is.

When you let yourself be sucked into email first thing each day it is all too easy to get swept up into email priorities rather than making strategic decisions about where your real priorities lie.

Too many law firms have made revenue («we'll do anything for a client if there's a dollar in it») or size; and trying to be all things to all people («look at us, we're full service») their priority... rather than meaningful differentiation.

With what's left over, you can make a place in your budget for smaller priorities — things that are wants rather than needs — like vacations or drinks with friends, Curtis said.

Improving Siri's voice is a good thing but it's much lower on the priority list than making it smarter.

Stephen Magura and Alexandre Laudet argue that in - utero exposure to cocaine and other drugs can lead to congenital deficits that may make a child more difficult to care for and, therefore, more prone to being maltreated.9 Parenting skills can also suffer among substance - abusing parents, who may be insufficiently responsive to their infants.10 Caregivers who abuse substances also may place a higher priority on their drug use than on caring for their children, which can lead them to neglect their children's needs for such things as food, clothing, hygiene, and medical care.

We are more aware of children and families in general and think things through more completely, remembering why it is important to keep those connections a priority and giving time to those conversations rather than doing other things that might seem important at the time.

i think my partner is treats me more like a option rather than a priority which I understand but I do nt get questions and things done as fast as i think they should get handled.

One thing I've learned is first class mail is sometimes cheaper than priority and vice verse depending on the weight.

Time and money can easily get away from me so I need to be mindful of both in order to keep my priority focused on more important things than decorating.