Chapter 8 Carefully prioritize

The notion of doing the important things instead of the urgent is so important, yet so often we forget.We must make this important concept our work habit. Every time we start a job, we must first let ourselves understand what is the most important thing and what we should focus on doing the most. Careful prioritization helps us form the habit.Before you can decide what to do with each year or day, you must take a more holistic view of how you spend your time.To do this, you need to ask yourself four questions: 1. Where do I come from and where am I going? Each of us shoulders a heavy responsibility. Although I am doing some ordinary things every day, in another 10 or 20 years, some of us may become the leaders of the company.Great entrepreneurs, great scientists.So, the first question we have to solve is, what do we want to do in the future?Only in this way can we continue to work towards this goal and abandon all things that have nothing to do with ourselves.

2 What do I need to do? To prioritize, you should also figure out what you need to do.There will always be some tasks that you must do.The important thing is that you must distinguish whether a certain task must be done, or whether it must be done by you.The two situations are different.It must be done, but it is not necessary for you to do it yourself. You can delegate others to do it, and you are only responsible for supervising its completion. 3What will give me the highest return? People should focus their time and energy on the things that will give them the highest return, that is, the things that will do them better than others.In this regard, let us use Pareto's law to guide ourselves: people should spend 80% of their time doing things that bring the highest return, and 20% of their time doing other things, so that the use of time is the most strategic. .

4. What gives me the greatest sense of satisfaction? Some people think that the things that bring the highest returns must give them the greatest satisfaction.But that's not true of any kind of thing.Regardless of your status, you need to spend some of your time doing things that bring you fulfillment and joy.This way you will always be enthusiastic about life, because your life is interesting. Understanding the above four questions, and using them to judge the torrent of things we are about to face, we will not let us fall into the quagmire of business affairs, and we can quickly determine the priorities of things and use them most efficiently. working methods to obtain maximum efficiency.