Prioritisation Is What I Need Right Now, How About You?
Today, I will talk about Prioritisation. I think this is what I need right now because I have been busy doing a lot of things lately.
I was not able to prioritise effectively to the extent that I got too overwhelmed and felt stressed and exhausted. Although I was able to manage it, my time management is a bit poorly because I have to resort to taking overtime because I want to get things done right away to avoid delay. This is what I usually do because of my busy work schedules at home and at my part-time work.
Partly it's my fault because I always resort to working things out at the last minute although I have plenty of time to do it in the first place. I tend to procrastinate a lot and this is the thing that I wanted to take out of my system.
How to do it besides changing my mindset? How can I effectively make use of my time or how can I manage my time wisely? The answer is Prioritisation.
Prioritisation is the essential skill that I need to make the very best use of my own efforts and those of my team at work. It's also a skill that I need to create calmness and space in my life so that I can focus my energy and attention on the things that really matter. ( Credits: www.mindtools.com )
One essential key is to make a to-do-list.
This is a list of things that I need to do in order of priority which I could classify as Urgent, Important, Less Important. This is what I'm planning to do now with my website. I need to do the urgent task first before I go to the important and less important ones. In this case, I don't need to rush to do things immediately whichever comes to my mind first without prioritising it. After completing a task, I need to tick the box so that I know that it's been done and don't have to come back into it unless it needs updating in which case, I need to put a note beside it. Those things I haven't fully accomplished will remain untick unless I fully accomplished it. This is just a simple method of how to prioritise.
If you want to learn more about Prioritisation, I come across with this Online Topic by Mind Tools which I think might be beneficial to you on how to prioritise effectively and make use of your time wisely. And if you have a Personal Development or a Leadership and Management Niche Website, this might also come in handy.
Please click on :
https://www.mindtools.com/page...
Hope you find the above site useful, l as you move forward in your online business.
P.S. If you find this topic useful, please leave your comment below. Many thanks!
All the best moving forward....
I can really relate to your post. I have a really hard time determining which of the things I need to do that should have a high priority. Well, not all of them some are pretty obvious and you can easily determine the priority. However, when there is a bunch of things that all seem very important to me that's when I get into trouble and don't know how to set the priorities.
That was one good thing about my job, whenever I would get hit with a bunch of requests at the same time I just would tell him that and he would meet with me right then and there to give these tasks priorities. But now that I m my own boss I don't have anyone to go to sometimes to determine a priority. But this and my total lack of organizational skills sometimes make things harder than they are.
Thanks very much for your reference to mind tools I will look into that right away.
Thanks again,
Barbara
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All the best! :)
It sounds like we have the exact same problems- priorities combined with a lack of organizational skill, though I'm not sure you have the problem with a lack of organization that I do - my organizational skills are really non-existent. combine that with a bunch of important things coming at me all at once - it sometimes seems impossible. Do you have the priorities problem with your job or what you want to do with your website?
Thanks,
Barbar
