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The antidote to chronic overwhelm is accepting that you cannot do it all.
Prioritizing means embracing the limits of your time and your energy, and taking back control of your to-do list. Embrace tactical strategies to ensure your priorities rise to the top amid the busyness of life.
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There are some general areas that all of us should prioritize in order to function well and generally make life worthwhile. These areas are:
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Intentionally take your focus away from distracting areas in your life.
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The Eisenhower Matrix system forces us to prioritize important tasks over urgent tasks.
Put your tasks in one of four separate categories:
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Instead of watching the clock, energy management can be used instead of time management. Our positive mood is high in the morning, dips in the afternoon, and rises again in the evening. We can use this information to our advantage and plan for our high-priority work when our mood is high and do low-priority work during our low mood hours.
Not everyone is the same, so it's worth figuring out when you're most productive and schedule your tasks accordingly.
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The Commitment Inventory productivity method makes us take stock of all our commitments and forces us to take a look at them.
Ensure your priorities are reflected in your categories.
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This productivity system is known as Eat the Frog. Using this method will enable you to prioritize the important every day and build momentum for the hours ahead.
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The Time Blocking productivity method compels you to plan your day hour by hour, and prevent multitasking by batching similar tasks together.
Ensure that at least one of your blocks of time is related to your most important tasks/projects.
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Warren Buffett's "2 List" Strategy focuses on getting rid of the tasks holding you back from your real priorities.
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Capture everything on a Master List and then break it down by monthly, weekly, and daily goals.
The matrix is a simple four-quadrant box that answers that helps you separate “urgent” tasks from “important” ones:
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Prioritizing tasks at work involves getting all your tasks and commitments in one place. Take a piece of paper and make a list of everything you need to get done. Questions to help you:
Find your goals. Without them, it is impossible to prioritize your tasks. Try to set 90-day goals, which is long enough to make meaningful progress. Questions to prompt goals:
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To-do lists can help perfectionists move past our paralysis. They may find making a list to be a reassuring guide to their day.
But there's also a risk: to-do lists can backfire i...
... into manageable tasks.
This way, you're armed with a set of concrete actions to take rather a vague cloud of high expectations.
... rather than all subsequent steps.
Focusing only on the next action gives you permission to work on something even if you don’t have it all figured out—which is crucial to completing tasks that in the past have left you paralyzed.