From the course: How to Set Goals When Everything Feels Like a Priority
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Making hard decisions about priorities
From the course: How to Set Goals When Everything Feels Like a Priority
Making hard decisions about priorities
- [Instructor] Some things are clearly priorities, the "do this or you'll get fired" kind of things, but most of what we spend our time on each day is a bit less obvious. There are tons of things we could be doing but what's the most effective way to spend our time? Here are three frameworks you can use to evaluate and make smarter decisions. The first, which is a classic strategy known as the Eisenhower matrix, because it was popularized by the former president, asks you to look at the urgent versus the important. If something is both urgent and important, do it right now. If it's not urgent and not important, don't do it at all. And things that fall in the middle, urgent but not important or important but not urgent, you do those after you've completed what's both urgent and important. The second framework is called the Pareto principle after the Italian economist who discovered it. it's also known as the 80/20 principle.…
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