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Prioritize Effectively

This will be a short article. Because while prioritizing may seem confusing it’s not. Here’s how to do it the right way:

What is the ultimate goal you have?

Make a list of all the things that must happen in order to reach your goal.

What is the one thing that stops everything else on your list from happening?

Now, what does that one thing depend on? If nothing, this is your first task to complete. If it depends on other things, make a list of those.

Now decide what one thing keeps all the other things from happening. And go do it.

This is how we prioritize effectively. We continuously work backwards and dig into the details to find the dependencies. And the dependencies of the dependencies. Depending on the complexity of your goal, it can get pretty unwieldy pretty quick. That’s ok – just focus on getting the highest priority pieces done first and don’t worry about the rest. As we work our way through dependencies, the entire roadmap becomes smaller and clearer.

At this point we can not only look at the big picture and feel better about it, we can look at everything we’ve done and swim in a sense of accomplishment.