Preview
Your list says "reply to Julie's email", "redo the website", "pay the invoice", "sort the Downloads folder". Four tasks, four kinds. Without sorting, you start with the one that reassures you most, not the one that matters. The problem with many to-do lists is not that they are long. It is that they mix: - what matters - what feels urgent - what feels reassuring - and what should not exist in the system at all
Prioritizing is not sorting a list. It is deciding what you protect, what you delay, and what you let die.
Prioritization is not only about choosing "the first task." It is about doing four different things: - eliminating noise - protecting what matters - arbitrating when several options are good - holding the choice over time
In the full lesson
- 1 What this is really about
- 2 The CMDglows decision framework
- 3 The right order: eliminate before you optimize
- 4 The Eisenhower Matrix
- 5 When to use more analytical scoring
- 6 One real priority
- 7 Weekly audit
- 8 Beeminder: after strategy, not before
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