Priority Management

Article in today’s Globe and Mail (national newspaper in Canada) in the Monday Morning Manager by Harvey Schachter quoting moi. Just wanted to share the good news with my fellow bloggers!

Self-Management: Building Your Day Based on Priorities

“At the end of today, make a list of everything you want to do tomorrow. Then, Quebec-based consultant Lucy MacDonald advises in her book Learn To Manage Your Time, choose the six most important tasks and number them 1 to 6. Tomorrow, start the day with the first item on the list and keep working on it until you have finished it or have taken it as far as you possibly can. Then move on to the second task, and approach it with similar discipline, not moving on to the third item until the second is completed. You’ll obviously be called upon to handle other tasks that arise during the day but she suggests taking them on only if they are more important than the task at hand. If not, put the item at the end of the list. “Even if you were not able to complete all six tasks that you had on your list by the end of the day, you have the satisfaction of knowing that you completed the most important ones,” she concludes.”