A brief introduction to multiple prioritization techniques to manage your work with more clarity and smoothness

1. B Y J A G A T V E E R S I N G H

2. EVERYTHING MATTERS
What?? Hold on
Impossibru

3. EVERYTHING MATTERS
• Everything carries the same weight
• Everything matters too much
• Focus on all the details
• Exhausting
• No discrimination between what is important to focus on and what isn’t

4. PRIORITIZATION
“It’s OK to have growing pains, as long as you’re
prioritizing correctly and working to address
them. Every company looks messy from the
inside" - Drew Huston

5. Strategies

6. MASTER LIST BREAKDOWN

7. MASTER LIST BREAKDOWN
• Break it down by monthly, weekly and daily goals
• Pareto is the way. Try not to get too “task oriented”

8. EISENHOWER MATRIX

9. EISENHOWER MATRIX
• Developed by US president Dwight Eisenhower
• Works well with limited experience
• Helps you separate urgent tasks from important ones

10. • Urgent and Important:
• Important, but not urgent:
• Urgent, but not important:
• Neither urgent nor important:
EISENHOWER MATRIX
• Urgent and Important: Do these tasks as soon as possible
• Important, but not urgent: Decide when you’ll do these and schedule it
• Urgent, but not important: Delegate these tasks to someone else
• Neither urgent nor important: Drop these from your schedule as soon
as possible

11. THE IVY LEE METHOD

12. THE IVY LEE METHOD
Limiting yourself to six tasks (or less) each day creates a constraint that forces
you to prioritize and then stay focused by single-tasking your way through
your list.

13. THE IVY LEE METHOD
• At the end of each work day, write down up to six most important things
you need to accomplish tomorrow.
• Prioritize those six items in order of their importance.
• Next day, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is
finished before moving on to the next one.
• Approach rest of the items in your list in the same fashion.
• At the end of the day, move any unfinished items to a new list of six
tasks for the following day.
• Repeat this process every working day.

14. THE ABCDE METHOD

15. THE ABCDE METHOD
• Created by Brian Tracy
• Helps differentiate between tasks that feel on the same level of
importance
• Instead of keeping all tasks on a single level of priority, this method
offers two or more levels for each task.

16. SUNK COST FALLACY

17. SUNK COST FALLACY

18. SUNK COST FALLACY
Beware