It’s a cliche of executive life: you don’t have time to do everything. Whether you use little slips of paper, a planner, scheduling software or a Palm Pilot, all attempts at time management fail. Rather than throwing in the towel, I suggest that you need a new frame of reference. Change your focus from time management to priority management.
Create a list of priorities
Your strategic plan should highlight your business priorities. If you don’t have one, take a look at my articles on the subject. . Answer the question, “What is most important to accomplish in this time frame?” Make those priorities explicit, write them out. Keep a list prominently posted by your desk.
About priorities
The word priority is derived from prior, meaning before, and related to the Latin primus, meaning first. And while some things are more important than others, your list of priorities should contain all the items of first importance – Only the items critical to developing your business, and nothing else.
Rethinking your to-do list
If you are like most people, your to-do list is a long hodgepodge of everything you have...
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