Tag: Priorities

Priorities Matter – Lessons From Feburary 2017

Post author By jrlsage
Post date February 28, 2017

Set, and then reset your direction

We have an impulse to “go.”

I think it is important to build the muscles to “ship.” Far too many people talk about doing things and don’t ever make it happen.

However, if you are reading this, that may not be a problem for you. The big problem is,”how do I make sure I’m doing the right thing.”

That’s hard. Setting the right priority is hard. No one tells you how to do it in school. It’s a skill that you have to gain through experience.

The good news is, once you get good, a ton of doors open for you because you keep your sword sharp. You stop your inner critic from treating you so bad. It’s easier to forgive yourself.

Being able to breathe and not let that impulse win opens a lot of doors.

So, take a moment, and set your priorities.

It will make everything else easier.

Books – My Goodreads Account

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient – Powered by the Science of Games
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Chomsky Reader
All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
The Knowledge: A Too Close To True Novel

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02/05/2017 – Prioritization | Engagement
02/12/2017 – Prioritization | Acceptable Loss
02/19/2017 – Prioritization | Eisenhower Matrix
02/26/2017 –Prioritization | Does This Matter

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Focus like Warren Buffett (He is the World’s Second Richest Man – Right?)

Post author By jrlsage
Post date February 18, 2017

It works for one of the world’s richest men

Warren Buffet, one of the world’s richest men, has a strategy to figure out what he needs to work on going forward.

After thinking about his top 25 priorities, he ranks them in order of importance from one to twenty-five. He crosses a line under the fifth one.

Every priority under that line he never thinks about again.

Three things stand out about that exercise:

He takes an enormous amount of work off his mental plate. By getting rid of 20 priorities he cares about, he has much more energy to focus on the five that matter.
He gets used to killing his darlings. Instead of priorities becoming a part of his identity, he keeps them at a distance where they stay ideas. They don’t become emotional.
His practice trains him in making the right decision. If five priorities matter, you are going to start learning what’s important faster than if you allowed yourself the opportunity to pick when you wanted to.

This exercise is a simple, yet powerful example of setting your boundaries.

Like setting priorities, this is difficult because you take away your escape route.

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Take Over The World!

*What are some of the questions that are stopping you from running the world? * – Seth Godin

I feel like if you ask that question to yourself every day along with realizing that you have the same 24 hours that everyone else has, your priorities should start to change,right?

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