Prioritize

Question 1

What are reactors?

Answer 1

People who live their life responding to the priorities set for them by other people, instead of priorities they set for themselves.

Question 2

What does setting priorities do?

Answer 2

Give you the opportunity to exercise personal choice and live out your values on a daily basis.

Question 3

What should you take time to consider?

Answer 3

What’s important to YOU.
Avoid focus on money or status

Question 4

What is maintain, improve, change, test?

Answer 4

Reflect on the past 6 months, write down what you want to maintain improve or change across relationships, health, finances, work, spirituality, and personal life. Go through what you’ve written and create specific actions.

IE - because finding a new job is a priority, you decide to schedule a coffee date each week with colleagues and mentors to network.

Question 5

How would I test drive different styles of time usage?

Answer 5

Try something new for 30 days.
IE - Build a reading habit.

Start by reading a single paragraph or single page every night.

Question 6

What are the rule of threes?

Answer 6

Limit yourself to three tasks a day to not become overwhelmed.

Question 7

What should be your standards for home/work?

Answer 7

Set priorities that meet personal values/company vision.

• why are you there?
• what are your strengths and responsibilities?
• what are their expectations of you?

Question 8

Urgent vs important?

Answer 8

Urgent is someone else’s goals.
Important is your values and longterm mission.

Urgent matters are never Important, and Important are never urgent.

Question 9

How do you protect your time?

Answer 9

Avoid reacting to other people’s priorities.

Question 10

What does switching attention do?

Answer 10

It incurs a cost.
( is this my most valuable activity?)

Question 11

What is VPH?

Answer 11

Value per hour

Question 12

Errand list

Answer 12

1) list all activities you perform.
2) then list estimated vph for each.
>store run minimum wage
3) rank each activity according to how much it’s worth. Most to least.

Question 13

What is a mva?

Answer 13

Most valuable activity.

Question 14

What is a lva?

Answer 14

Least valuable activity.

(Do your best to do your two mva)

Question 15

1) MVT. ( I complete)
Do it now/task reminder

Answer 15

-Most valuable task
-The more value the sooner it should be done.
-how long will it take?
-deadlines?

Question 16

2) HAS VALUE/ SHOULD DO SOON
Their MVT not yours.

Answer 16

Can’t use tech to get rid of or simplify

Delegate to someone else

Provide clear instructions and expectations, follow up on results, hold them accountable.

More productive if someone else performed this task? (Abilities)

Question 17

3) Has value but needs automation

Answer 17

Software/hardware

Can I automate this task?

Question 18

4) Some value and commitment

Answer 18

Doesn’t need to be done anytime soon. (Task w/no deadline)

Positive procrastination-low value

When is the latest I have to start thinking about this?

Can I train someone else?

Question 19

5) Maybe- review later

Answer 19

Uncertain value or you just lack commitment. Slow down a moment. Don’t put on calendar just yet, because a calendar event is a commitment.

This is just an idea and ideas tend to repeat in our minds until we do something about them. Get them out of our head and put them somewhere our minds know where to find them in the future.

10:00 a.m. appointment on the 4th Sunday of every month to review your perhaps list for 30 minutes. Is there anything you want to put back in the funnel? File the rest for amusement.

Question 20

6) No never again/waste of time

Answer 20

Say no to things with low or no value, then you’re saying yes to all other options.

Zero activity is :

Wasting time
Negative talk
Senseless arguments
Addictive or destructive Behavior

Question 21

4 & 5

Answer 21

Get filtered through again

Question 22

Work on yourself, every minute counts

Answer 22

Work on yourself more than a job or a hobby or anything else, then you will be valuable.

Question 23

Blaming people

Answer 23

If you’re blaming people for the bad you may as well blame them for the good as well. Optimism. Positives.

Question 24

An entire life changes in a moment.

Answer 24

Life happens for us, not to us.