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Prioritizing Skills

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Get the best return on your time, resources and energy for everything you do in life

Prioritization allows you to complete the most important tasks before engaging in low-value activities. This will allow you to accomplish more results.

“How do these skills help me achieve more?” You ask…

Learning how to prioritize your activities helps you focus on important activities first, which are high-value activities.

Take a look at the Time Management Matrix to understand which task you should give higher priorities.

Check it out here. It will only take you less than a minute.

You’ll not get many things done if you keep jumping from one task to another without finishing the job.

Even if you get things done, you might still find yourself drowning in work! So here's what you need to do...

The reason for this is because you may not have learned proper skills to prioritize tasks. So, by acquiring this all important time management skill, you’ll learn techniques on how to complete important activities first.

This is relevant to the 80/20 rule where Italian economists Vilfredo Pareto mentioned that around 80% of outputs are a result of 20% of input.

So imagine if you can draw all your energy and learn techniques on how to focus on the 20% of your tasks early in the day! You’ll get 80% of return by investing your time to complete the 20% of activities.

You must learn how to focus your energy on your top priority tasks. You can do this by reading the 5 steps to hone your prioritization skills.


Pickle Jar Theory
Prioritizing is based on the Pickle Jar Theory


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