Find your Most Important Tasks. Do them.
I don’t know about you, but I usually have about a million things that I feel like I should be doing. The end result is often… not actually doing them.
I try and keep the regular, recurring tasks under control by corralling them into routines and zone tasks, but there are always one-off jobs and projects to keep under control.
You can follow all sorts of powerful techniques to identify what to do next; what is urgent vs what is important, and what is urgent AND important, and so on. But there is only so much list-writing and task-juggling you can do before it turns into just another form of procrastination.
How about this:
- Choose your three Most Important Tasks tasks to do today.
- Write them in a To Do list.
- Try and do those three.
Even if you get just one of them done, you’ll be further ahead than if you didn’t do any of those extra jobs.
My Most Important Tasks for today:
1) Take the school kids to buy new shoes, because one of them had their sneakers AND boots had fall apart and having them walk into school barefoot isn’t a great look in the middle of winter.
2)Update my order for the fruit and vege box because we managed to eat most of our veges this week.
3)Pay the outstanding fees for Brownies.