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The Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer Priorities Leads to Better Work
The challenge becomes how long you stay on your priority. To be able to address your priorities outside of work, be clear about your most important work priority so you can get it done. Then go home and be clear about your priorities there so you can get back to work.
Gary Keller • The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals with one of the world's bestselling success books
Picking which tasks to work on ahead of time lets you focus on what’s actually important in the moment. This has never been more crucial than in our knowledge-work environments, where not all tasks are created equal.
Chris Bailey • Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More
Some ways to build this habit:Be very selective with what you take on (say NO!), and spend more time than anyone else on the things you do take on.Prioritize AND communicate: When you’re asked to do something new, first determine its priority (i.e. slot it into your already existing set of priorities) and then make sure to communicate that priority... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • 14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers
The question of balance is really a question of priority. When you change your language from balancing to prioritizing, you see your choices more clearly and open the door to changing your destiny. Extraordinary results demand that you set a priority and act on it. When you act on your priority, you’ll automatically go out of balance, giving more t
... See moreGary Keller • The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals with one of the world's bestselling success books
There is an old saying, “If everything is important, nothing is important.” Too often we have many competing goals that all seem equally important. And they may feel equally important, but if I asked you to stack rank them instead of choose between them, you could probably put them in order of importance. Once you’ve prioritized them, choosing to w
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