Priorities

Writing down ideas, notes, and future tasks can help clear the clutter from your brain so you’re able to focus on the task in the moment. 

Knowing what you have on your plate allows you to evaluate what you’re spending your time on and how you should spend it.

Thinking about your goals gets you started, but it’s also important to think about priorities. Try this experiment: go back to the goals you wrote and see if you can rank each goal as a:

• Top priority
• Middle priority
• Lowest priority

Priorities always involve ...

Remind yourself of items that don’t bring you joy, and contribute very little to your long-term goals.

This way, you’re unlikely to spend a lot of time doing time-sucking, non-rewarding work, freeing you up to do the work that does make you happy in the long run.