Our brain is not great at prioritizing what is the best use of our time. Many of us who are working hard are not working hard on the right things. Create two task lists every day and list the three highest return opportunities and then list your less important tasks as a separate list. Avoid urgent distractions more frequently by prioritizing your three most important tasks.

 

To help me, I have been using something Donald Miller calls a daily planner. The planner has a section for priorities and then a section for secondary tasks. When I started using it, there was not a lot of direction on how to determine priorities. There is a course in Business Made Simple University that shows how to create a life plan. The life plan includes setting annual goals. Using my annual goals, I now try to connect my long term objectives to daily priorities. This helps me understand why my chosen daily priorities are the right three. Shoot me an e-mail at CultivatedClarity@hey.com if you want a pdf of the daily planner.   

 

-          Content comes from Business Made Simple book (Chapter 3: Productivity)