If everything's important, then nothing is.

This is my new favorite quote...

"If everything's important, then nothing is."

LOVE. IT.

A good friend of mine shared this line with me at church. He was talking about "that guy" at the office. You know the one...where EVERYTHING is an emergency? Where every problem is a five-alarm fire. THE GUY (OR GAL!) THAT TYPES ALL HIS EMAILS IN ALL CAPS TO EMPHASIZE THE SERIOUSNESS AND IMPORTANCE OF WHAT HE (OR SHE!) IS SAYING!!

Chicken Little X The Boy that always cries wolf = That guy (or girl!)

There's a lot of that going around these days. With tensions high and 401k's low it seems that so many people are focused only on looking out for "#1" and ready to blow at the slightest transgressions.

Recently I enjoyed a lovely all-caps email about the settings on the office thermometer.

I mean, THE OFFICE THERMOMETER!!!!

But I, like most people, respond to cooler heads. The ones that realize the sky indeed is not falling. The people that realize that if everything is important, then nothing is. Because in this life, you really can't say "yes" to the things that matter until you say "no" to the things that don't.