10 Tips To Prioritize Important Things In Your Life

It can get very overwhelming when you have a lot of things to do and they are all just as important. From assignments, work, your cleaning and workout routine, it can be a lot. So how do you know what’s the most important from the all important tasks waiting for only you?

Learn to prioritize to become efficient and save time. Take a look at our tops tips to achieve that.

1. Have a to do list
Write down everything that is important and that needs to be done in the coming week. List all the projects that need to be accomplished, decisions that needs to be made and the errands that need to be run.

2. Assess value
Look at all your tasks and identify what has the most value to you. You have to be able to recognize which top tasks have top priorities over the others. You can also assess value by rating how many people are affected by the task, the more people involved or affected the higher the stakes.

3. Identify urgent vs important
See if you have a task that needs immediate attention, the one that if not completed at the end of the day or the next few hours, they will have negative effect and quencequences.

4. Categorize your tasks
It’s helpful to put all your tasks in categories, all the house chores in the same category, your work in its category and school assignments in their own. This will help you see the individual importance of your tasks.

5. One task at a time
It’s difficult to finish your tasks if you do a little bit of everything at the same time, at the end of the day everything will look incomplete. Do one thing until it’s complete unless if there are tasks that be effectively combined.

6. Rank the effort required
Rank everything on your list in terms of its important so you’ll know where it stands in relation to other tasks. Check your tasks’ estimates and start with what takes the most effort to complete or the lengthiest time.

7. Decide what to let slide
Chances are not you are not going to complete every task on your list, after prioritizing the most important, cut the remaining from the list and focus on the tasks that need to be done before the day ends.

8. Start with the least desirable/hardest
It can be good for you to start with the task that you are looking forward to the least. It doesn’t have to be the hardest or the most important, but getting it out of the way to save the less painful activities could be effective for some people.

9. Keep your list visible
For long term tasks, keep your list somewhere you can see it and use it as a reminder for what you need to finish actively crossing off the items as you complete them. Post it notes makes a great around the house reminders.

10. Be Adaptable
Change and uncertainty will always there, your priorities might change even when you least expect them to. As long as you stay committed and focused to the tasks at hand, you’ll do just fine.