You have ten tasks to do today. You've defined every one as a next action. How do you decide which to do?

Prioritization is an important skill for just this kind of situation. As you practice prioritizing, your ability to evaluate what's most important will improve over time.

The Eisenhower Matrix is a great place to start learning the skill of prioritization. The Eisenhower matrix specifies that a task is either important, or not important; and it is either urgent or not urgent. That makes for four possible options for any given task (important/urgent, important/not urgent, not important/urgent, and not important/not urgent). How you should approach your task differs based on based on which of these four categories that task falls into:

Action:

• [ ] Pick a task on your todo list for today.
• [ ] Use the Eisenhower Matrix above to decide which category it falls into.
• [ ] Do it, decide when to do it, delegate it, or delete it.

What's next?

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