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Priority List

20 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Dotty Scott. This content was uploaded by Dotty Scott. This is a YouTube video titled "Priority List" (created 2023-02-20) featuring a single speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) delivering a monologue on productivity and task management. The speaker discusses common to-do list mistakes, recommends scheduling only the day’s top priorities on a planner, prioritizing tasks that prevent major negative outcomes (personal or professional), moving lower-priority items forward as time allows, and eliminating time-wasters.

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Well, it's funny because when I start working with companies, um, and it happens all the time, I'll ask them what they use. And a lot of people have a to-do list, right? We all have a to-do list. I have a to-do list. But the mistake they make is they put all of their to-dos on today, right? So you have 50 different things on today instead of looking at that and saying, what do I want to get done today? Having a separate list and putting that on a planner, on a schedule, so that only those things that are most important are there. So they're both fires, you know, the important things. If you're going to lose a client, if you're going to lose business, if you're going to get a divorce, whatever those things are, personal and professional, you want to make sure that you have one piece of that on the day. And then at the end of the day, you could check those off. Now, that doesn't mean that those other 1,000 things don't get done, right? You have to move them in as you can, and you really have to prioritize what is important, what can I get rid of completely, and how can I kill the time wasters.