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5 key questions for setting priorities
- Why am I on the payroll? Ask yourself if what you are doing right now is the most important thing that you have been hired to do.
- What are my highest value activities?
- What are my key result areas? What are the specific results that you have to get in order to do your job in an excellent fashion.
- What can I, and only I, do that if done well will make a real difference?
- What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?
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Setting priorities
- The first 20% of any task usually accounts for 80% of the value of that task.
- Once you begin working on that task, the first 20% of the time that you spend planning and organizing the resources necessary to achieve the task usually accounts for 80% of your success.
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“We must give a lot of thought to the future, because that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives.”
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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Forget about the small things…
While setting priorities, never give in to the temptation to clear up small things first.
Don’t allow yourself to get bogged down in low-priority activities.
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- What are the five non-negotiable values in my life?
- What would I do if I were guaranteed success?
- What are the experiences I want to have?
- What is on my schedule that doesn’t need to be there?
- What am I doing that I don’t enjoy, ...
I ask primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions. I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Understand your key result areas
Understand what you were hired to do and the results you are supposed to deliver.
By being aware of hat you're truly accountable for, you can justify delegating and deleting tasks that aren't related to your job-specific tasks and goals.
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