To make sure you're able to focus on your priorities it's important you want to take charge of your life by setting your priorities straight and other priorities will be focused on what's happening right now.

2. The Purpose of Setting Priorities
Priorities are about:
• Making time to attend to important matters
• Getting tasks done
• Keeping track of tasks to monitor progress

3. Challenges in Setting Priorities
• Understanding goals & expectations
• Assign list of all tasks & determine “must-do” items
• Scope
• Timeline
• Relationships – consider involving others in
completion of efforts

4. Defining Goals
• Determine the desired result
• Set short-term objectives for achieving goals
• Adjust objectives as conditions change
“Begin with the end in mind” – Stephen Covey

5. Prioritizing
• Rank tasks in order of importance
• Build in-time for the unexpected
• Leave time for thinking and planning
• Remain flexible
• Realize you won’t finish everything

6. Prime Time
• When do you have the most energy?
• When are there fewest interruptions?
• When can you schedule private time?

7. Procrastination
• Break a large job down into smaller parts
• Do the easy parts first
• Time yourself
• Punish yourself
• Reward yourself

8. Tips for Productive Meetings
• Attend only essential meetings
• Come prepared and participate effectively
• When you are chairing a meeting
• Choose a good time
• Impose a time limit
• Set a reasonable agenda

9. The Art of Priority Management
• Get to meetings early so you can compose yourself before
others arrive.
• Practice doing just one thing at a time, giving it your full
attention.
• Pause after you finish one task before beginning another.
• Say “No” and mean it:
• When the timings just not right
• When you have other priorities

10. In Closing
• Time is one of your most valuable assets
• Planning and organization are the key to priority
management
• Eliminating time thieves allows you to accomplish
essential tasks
• Control your schedule instead of being controlled
by it

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