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A Simple Exercise To Establish Your Priorities

A Simple Exercise To Establish Your Priorities

Pic by Lechon Kirb

This quick and easy exercise will help you identify where to focus your time and energy. By establishing clear priorities, it will be easier to remove distractions that get on your way.

Let’s Do It

1. Write down 10–20 things that you want to achieve. Think in terms of goals -what you want to achieve- rather than to do list -what you have to do to get there. Prioritization is about strategy not execution.

2. Divide your goals in three groups. Group 1 are the one most critical goals. I like to think of it of the “things I don’t want to regret of when I die”. I use it as joke but I really mean it. Group 3 is the opposite, goals that you can live with or without them. Group 2 represent doubts, these are the things we aren’t sure whether or not they are critical or don’t really.

3. Eliminate Group 3 and all its content. Reducing waste is the most effective act when prioritizing.

4. Take a stand with Group 2 items. Eliminate those that are clos…