How to Tactically Set Goals & Prioritize Them - Productivity Mastery w/Patrick (Wisdom 4 Humanity)

In my corporate career, I was at Accenture for 27, 28 and a half years, and I got asked to do a lot of governance working sessions. I'm going to share with you what some clients paid, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars for. I'm just going to give it to you right now. And so we would come and do a governance exercise, and people think governance is all this complex stuff. And I'd walk in, and this is a Patrick Mosher special. I'd walk in and I'd say, "Governance is making a high-quality decision, making it fast, and making it stick." It's all that governance is. Making a high-quality decision. Yes. Making it fast and making it stick. When you do those 3 things right, that's a great governance mechanism. And the reason why I wanted to share that with you, because priority setting is a great governance mechanism. And it's a decision. Priorities, setting priorities, choosing a real priority is making a decision. And I've shared this before with other folks. I got this from Bo Eason in his mastermind. I love when he said, "You know the root of the word decide is side." What are other words with C-I-D-E? Homicide. Genocide. Decide means to kill all other options. So when you decide something, you have taken away the other options. You're moving forward with confidence. That's what a decision is. So that's what priority setting is, is making those decisions. And priority, priority comes from Latin, and it means prior. A priori, what comes before. So priority setting is about just setting things, deciding sequence. Priorities is just deciding sequence. That's so good, that should be a quote. Oh, okay, so again, let me say that again. Priorities is about deciding sequence. All right. So let's make some decisions today. Let's jump in. Okay, what I'd like you to do is brainstorm your top 3 goals for the next 30 days, for the month. So, do you have your 3 goals for the month? Okay. What I'd like you to do now is choose one. We're going to analyze that one goal that you have, that one, and see if it's a priority for you. If you rank order them, go ahead and rank order them 1, 2, 3. Which are the most important, second most important, third most important goal? Go ahead and rank order them. 1, 2, 3. Okay, hopefully you've got that. Now, choose one means if you choose the first one, you're going to check to see that it is your highest priority. If you check the number third, the number 3, priority. You're checking to see if it should rise up or whether it actually is a priority of yours at all.