Priorities – Chapter 6: Take the Red Pill, Quit the Quo

Lets talk about priorities.

We all have them… or at least we should. We should all get our priorities straight and act upon them accordingly. You have them in general life, you have them in work… identify what needs to be done and when to do them.

There’s also a time and a place for these priorities and you need to make sure you’re 100% involved in the given thing at the given time.

You need to meticulously evaluate what is most important to you, at a given time, and commit to it totally. Easier said then done, sure, but identify what needs to be done, where you want to be and who with… and make it happen that these priorities get met as they are there for a reason so you can achieve some objective or fulfil some desire.

You may well get tripped up by other ‘more important’ things but these need to be scrutinised to make sure they are actually taking you forward or just providing a distraction…

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So have a look at your life. What are you general priorities? It may be your family, friends, vocation, money (for the right reasons) etc so build your life around these things. Put them first and put everything into place so these can remain top of the pile.

Then look at a specific project. What needs to be done and when in order to complete it on time and to a high standard. If you have a plan and objectives to reach en route to the goal then it will be clear what tasks need to be performed. Put these at the top and make sure they get done.

You prioritise them as they are important. They are the most relevant to what takes you to your given end, whatever that may be. All else can be left until these tasks have been completed.

Anything not done can go to the top of the list in due course as they become the priority themselves… that is if they were ever a priority in the first place, they may have been a distraction all along and actually drop off the list or become obsolete (or maybe even done in the process).

It's also worth noting that the pluralisation of the word 'priority' didn't even exist until relatively recently. The word itself originally meant the one most important thing, so by definition can't have more! We've bastardised that of course and got carried away, and we need to get back to some sort of order and get them ordered accordingly.

So you have your priorities straight, you make wise and fast decisions and you take the required actions. But this needs to be on a continuous, prolific basis. Which is where the next 2 chapters come in and are imperative to your success…