Prioritize Flashcards
What are reactors?
People who live their life responding to the priorities set for them by other people, instead of priorities they set for themselves.
What does setting priorities do?
Give you the opportunity to exercise personal choice and live out your values on a daily basis.
What should you take time to consider?
What’s important to YOU.
Avoid focus on money or status
What is maintain, improve, change, test?
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.
How would I test drive different styles of time usage?
Try something new for 30 days.
IE - Build a reading habit.
Start by reading a single paragraph or single page every night.
What are the rule of threes?
Limit yourself to three tasks a day to not become overwhelmed.
What should be your standards for home/work?
Set priorities that meet personal values/company vision.
- why are you there?
- what are your strengths and responsibilities?
- what are their expectations of you?
Urgent vs important?
Urgent is someone else’s goals.
Important is your values and longterm mission.
Urgent matters are never Important, and Important are never urgent.
How do you protect your time?
Avoid reacting to other people’s priorities.
What does switching attention do?
It incurs a cost.
( is this my most valuable activity?)
What is VPH?
Value per hour
Errand list
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.
What is a mva?
Most valuable activity.
What is a lva?
Least valuable activity.
(Do your best to do your two mva)
1) MVT. ( I complete)
Do it now/task reminder
-Most valuable task
-The more value the sooner it should be done.
-how long will it take?
-deadlines?
2) HAS VALUE/ SHOULD DO SOON
Their MVT not yours.
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)
3) Has value but needs automation
Software/hardware
Can I automate this task?
4) Some value and commitment
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?
5) Maybe- review later
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.
6) No never again/waste of time
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
4 & 5
Get filtered through again
Work on yourself, every minute counts
Work on yourself more than a job or a hobby or anything else, then you will be valuable.
Blaming people
If you’re blaming people for the bad you may as well blame them for the good as well. Optimism. Positives.
An entire life changes in a moment.
Life happens for us, not to us.
