We will take about how to stay focused on your priorities and how to prioritizes your life.
Chapter 2: THE KEY TO LEADERSHIP: PRIORITIES
What has been your greatest challenge in staying focused on your priorities?
PRIORITY PRESSURES
1. Most people Overestimate the Importance of Most Things.
2. Having Too Many Priorities Paralyzes People.
3. When Small Demands Are Given Too Much Attention, Big Problems Arise.
4. Making Everything a Priority Means Nothing Is a Priority.
5. Sometimes It Takes An Emergency To Force People To Prioritize.
When has a crisis demanded you adjust your priorities?
PRIORITY PRINCIPLES
1. Working Smarter Has A Higher Return Than Working Harder.
2. You Can’t Have It All.
3. Good Is Always The Enemy Of Best.
4. Proactive Beats Reactive.
What are two areas where you can take steps to move from the right to the left side?
5. The Important Needs To Take Precedence Over The Urgent.
Proactive Priority Solution # 1: The Pareto Principle or the 80/20 Rule:
which means most of your priorities will take up 20% of your time while the most important priorities will take up 80% of you time.
Proactive Priority Solution #2: The Three R’s
1. What Is Required Of Me?
2. What Gives Me The Greatest Return?
3. What is Most Rewarding?
How do you juggle keeping your priorities and other people’s expectations?
What are the tasks that you feel are required of you, but you would rather have someone else do them because they don’t leave you feeling fulfilled or accomplished? What would need to change for you to delegate them?
What are the tasks that if it were up to you, you would happily spend more time on but don’t feel are very productive?
Proactive Priority Solution # 3: Make Room For Margin
1. Margins Improve Self-Awareness.
2. Margins Give You Needed Think Time.
3. Margins Provide You With Energy Renewal.
Which of these three points could you take action on to increase your margins?
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being very organized, how would you rate yourself in the ability to get through your daily tasks and still be able to meet the demands of emergencies that may arise throughout the day? What could you do tomorrow to raise that by 1?
HOW TO CREATE MARGIN
1. Evaluate And Eliminate Continually
When was the last time you did a thorough evaluation of your agenda?
2. Fight To Keep 20 Percent Of Your Calendar As White Space.
How could you put 20 percent back into your agenda?
EMBRACE PRIORITY PRINCIPLES
Pareto Principle Worksheet
List your top ten priorities on the chart below.
Now identify which are your top two that will give you an eighty percent return.
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