Like with anything else in life, if you want excellent results then focus on doing the most important things. Because there will never be time and energy enough to do it all.

正如对待生活中的任何其他事一样，专心于做最重要的事能够带给你最好的结果，因为一个人不可能有足够的时间和精力来完成所有事。

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For some people, it feels like too much trouble to have a friend over or do the things that everyone else does. You just never know how your parent will act.

对一些人而言，接待朋友或者做一些其他事情都变得困难重重，因为你永远不知道父母会怎么反应。

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If there are things on your to-do list that never make it to the top, you probably know which jobs these are.

如果在你必须要做的事情清单上有些事情，可以让你不喜欢的事情永远也不会放到工作的首位，你就可能知道你讨厌的工作是什么了。

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"But she never expected you to do things the right way. And that is a very powerful thing."

VOA: special.2010.12.10

Do you do all the things you never did with me?

NEWYORKER: Women on the Verge

Ms. SHERMAN: And it was very rewarding to see that even though maybe children under 10 had never seen a performance because of the Taliban, if you do things that are the same kind of slapstick comedy that you would do here, kids will laugh.

NPR: 'Beyond the Mirror': Afghanistan's Pain Onstage

The problem lies when you never look at what else you could do with your money, or buy things blindly without considering the lost opportunities.

FORBES: The Role Of Opportunity Cost In Financial Decision Making