Break The High Priority Cycle
October 2nd, 2006 | by Mike G |Over at 43 Folders, Merlin Mann points out that when trying to work through a number of high priority tasks, their priority is not the best way to work your way through them. Instead, in deciding what to do next, it’s important to take your context, time and energy available into consideration.
| Unless you can always satisfy the big red letter commitments you’ve created for yourself — as well as the ones that are constantly being generated for you by others — an obsession with priority alone is pointlessly stress-inducing, unhealthy, and unrealistic. The truth is that sometimes you have crap days, pencils need to be sharpened, or maybe you just don’t have the tools or energy to do what you want the second you want. That’s life, pal. Deal. |
