You've got to learn to put first things first.

你应该学会将最要紧的事情摆在第一位。

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Demonstrate ability to proactively prioritise needs, put first things first, and effectively manage resources and time.

能够明确事情的优先次序，重要的事情先做，并能有效的管理资源和时间。

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For example, you want to become efficient, to develop the seven habits: actively, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, win-win thinking, know solution has, synergy, constantly updated.

比如您要成为高效能人士，就要养成以下七个习惯：积极主动、以终为始、要事第一、双赢思维、知彼解己、统合综效、不断更新。

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At first, they forget simple things, like where they put something or a person's name.

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You might recall from grade school sometimes you put things in parentheses so that your addition happens first, then your multiplication, otherwise multiplication would happen by default first.

你们可能会想起小学时，将一些加法表达式,放在圆括号里，这样加法可以先计算，然后是乘法，否则，乘法默认先发生。

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The key is to decide what your big rocks are and put those first things first.

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Then you can be more enthusiastically proactive, more clearly determine what the right things are to put first and more successfully negotiate a win-win position, for example, because your body and your mind are alert and in sync.

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