Saturday 17 January 2009

How Should We Prioritize Our Works?



The fact is we, human beings, are not multitasking robots and we are highly efficient if we focus on one action at a time. Can you go to cinema, go to gym, go to work and go to see a friend at 2:30 tomorrow?!

So, it's extremely important to have a proper prioritization strategy for our tasks.

Strategy:
  1. List and review all the tasks you have for this week - To Do List
  2. Write the consequences of doing and not doing each action for each day - Analyzed List
  3. Whichever task has a more severe/important consequence should take the higher priority and must be done first - Prioritized List
  4. Do the task with the highest priority - Action
  5. Go to 1
Tips:
  • As long as we are alive and we have something in our "To Do List" basket, this loop never ends
  • The "Prioritized List" is not a rigid list and can change as time pass on. New tasks can join the list or new events can happen.
  • Some tasks don't require any action, they are a process, and we can do other tasks while that task is done. For instance, we can read a book during the time we are going to work with train.

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