The Key to Priority Management

"If you want something done, give it to a busy person." - Unknown


Wealthy people make decisions quickly. The concept of time management is a myth. You cannot manage time, you can only manage the order in which things get done. So many people tell me that they don't have the time to get the things done in their life that need to get done. We all have fires that come up during the course of the day. We all have distractions and things that suddenly need our attention. However, there is a system that will allow you the ability to complete those dreams that right now you just cannot seem to get to.

Priority management is the ability to focus on the things that MUST get done versus things that simply don't matter as much. True, they may be important but not everything has the same importance. I would recommend that you pick a time where you consistently spend just ten minutes a day getting your day in order and assigning different levels the things you need to accomplish for that particular day. For example, you could assign an A, B or a C to each of the tasks in order of importance and next to the A you may decide to put a 1, 2 , 3, etc. to each of the tasks (i.e A1, A2 and B1, B2). Then simply make sure you complete the tasks in the order that you've already determined are the most important. Once you commit to doing the things in that order and you do it everyday, you will see that the goals you have start to go down like bowling pins as you complete them one by one.

That system may sound very simplistic to you but in more than 85% of all cases, you will be able to knock each item down by simply making up your mind to complete them and do it in the order that you assigned to each item. One of the challenges is that we don't always stick to the plan and we end up either skipping over certain tasks or ignoring them until the next day or even the next week. I will admit that there are circumstances that may contribute to the system I've spoken about not being realistic around 15% of the time. I understand that there are certain phone calls and other distractions that can eat into a big chunk of our day. Believe me, I get it. But when those situations pop up, we need to handle them and then get back into what we had planned previously. What helps is to not only schedule out the actual day and also to have a weekly plan that we can look back at to make sure we've completed everything during that week. Anything that was not completed by the end of the week may have to be attended to during the weekend.


Talk to you soon,

David Oswald

Rivers of Income, LLC