Prioritizing our work is a very important task in our everyday schedule. In this presentation you would come to know different and easy methods to prioritize your work. This will help you in all aspects

1. AMRITA SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
(AMRITA VISHWA VIDYAPEETHAM)
ARASAMPALAYAM, COIMBATORE
PRIORITIZING
COURSE TEACHER
Dr.VANITHA
PROFFESOR
(COMPREHENSION AND
COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN
ENGLISH)
STUDENT
MAYURIKKA.T.P
CB.AG.U4AGR19137

2. PRIORITY
• A condition or fact of being regarded or treated
as more important than others

3. Practical methods for how to
prioritize work
• Break it down
• Eisenhower matrix
• Ivy Lee method
• ABCDE method
• Setting the tone
• Warren Buffet’s 2-list strategy
• Sunk cost fallacy

4. 1. Capture everything on a master list and then
break it down by monthly
,weekly,and daily goals.
• Start by making master list- a document, app, or piece
of paper where every current and future tasks can be
stored.
• Once you have all your tasks together ,its time to
break them down into monthly, weekly, and daily
goals.
• When setting your priorities ,try not to get too ‘task
oriented’. But you want to make sure you’re
prioritizing the more effective work.

6. 2.Separate the urgent from the important
with Eisenhower Matrix
• Urgent tasks are things you feel like you need
to react to right away, like emails, phone calls,
texts, or news.
• Important tasks are the ones that contribute
to your long-term mission, values, and goals

8. • 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

9. 3. Rank your work by its true priority
with Ivy Lee method.
• At the end of each work day, write down the
six most important things you need to
accomplish tomorrow. Do not write more
than six tasks.
• Prioritize those six tasks in order of their true
importance.

10. • When you arrive tomorrow ,concentrate only
on the first task. Work until the first task is
finished before moving on to the next one.
• Approach the rest of your works in the same
fashion .
• Repeat this process every working day.

12. 4.Separate tasks with seemingly
similar priorities
• Go through your list and give every task a
letter from A to E(A being the highest priority).
• For every task that has an A, give it a number
which dictates the order you’ll do it in
• Repeat until all tasks have letters and numbers.

14. 5.Set the tone
• HOW YOU START THE DAY sets the tone for the
rest of it. And often, getting a large , yet important
task out of the way first thing gives you momentum,
inspiration, and energy to keep moving.
• Huge number of productivity experts suggest
spending time on your most important task(MIT)right
away each day.

16. 6.Cut out ‘good enough goals’
• The first step is to write down your top 25
goals(life, career, education).
• Now circle your top five on that list.
• Finally, any goal you didn’t circle goes on an
‘avoid at all cost’ list. These the tasks that are
seemingly important enough deserve your
attention. But they aren’t moving you towards
your long-term priorities.

18. 7.Be aware of the sunk cost fallacy
• Humans are especially susceptible to the ‘sunk
cost fallacy’- a psychological effect where we
compelled to continue doing something just
because we’ve already put time and effort into
it.
• But the reality is that no matter what you
spend your time doing, you can never get that
time back.

20. • PRIORITIES ARE GREAT. BUT REMEMBER TO BE
REALISTIC ABOUT HOW MUCH WORK YOU
CAN ACTUALLY DO EACH DAY.