Jim Kwik argues priority should be singular: only one thing can truly be top priority. He uses a domino metaphor to identify high-impact tasks that trigger progress, then offers a triage system for your to-do list: do it, delete it, defer it, or delegate it.
When you look at a word, priorities, it's only been plural over the past few decades. Prior to that, it was always singular. Priority is the one thing that matters in your life or in your work or in your relationship or in your health. But as we grow and technology and we have all these demands, everything becomes important. It's kind of like somebody who's reading and they're highlighting everything. If you make everything important, then nothing becomes important. Remember that first domino you hit and then it hits another one and another one and another one? Always look for that first few dominoes, that's going to do a lot of the work. So as you're going through your to-do list, what demands your attention? I'm either going to do it or I'm going to delete it or I'm going to defer it at another time or I'm going to delegate it. Training yourself to ask the question, what's the best investment use of my time in this moment? And then all of a sudden you start getting answers.
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