How Do You Priorities Tasks In Your Business?
As home business owners and entrepreneurs sometimes it can be difficult to prioritise your work load each day.
What with checking emails, writing blog posts, updating your various social networking sites, answering the phone, interacting with your readers and contacting your list you can get overwhelmed.
What I use is the great little tool that helps me put everything into a list of 4 priorities, with priority 1 being top and 4 being bottom.
Check out the image below and I will explain what each one means and how I deal with each of them.
Priority 1: Urgent and Important
So your first priorities of the day should be the things that you must do no matter what. This could be contacting your leads, updating your blog, presenting a webinar or just about anything that is the most important thing you must do without fail.
Priority 2: Important, Not Urgent
Your second priority will be important but not urgent. This could be something like updating your social networking sites, checking emails or anything like that. It’s a task that you is important and needs to be done but it could wait until the next day.
Priority 3: Urgent, Not Important
On to your third priority of the day and these are task that are urgent but not important, now what could that mean. Well it’s urgent for somebody else but not important for you. That person needs you to complete the task ASAP but you have more personal urgent and important tasks to do. It’s up to you how to deal with this and decide how important it is for you to do the task for that person. Each situation will be different.
Priority 4: Not Urgent, Not Important
Your forth priority is all the tasks that keep getting put off day to day. They are things that may have been priority 1, 2 or 3 but for whatever reason they were never completed. These task are likely to never be completed so the best thing to do is scrap them off your list. They are just clogging up space, so to speak.
That’s how I put all of my daily, weekly and monthly tasks into order of priority to help organise my life a little better. I would be interested to hear how your priorities tasks.
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