[ Prioritise ]

One of the tasks that needs to be done, but doesn’t feel like you’re doing anything, is planning.  Planning your day, or week, or planning a project: these are all exercises in prioritisation.

It’s a universal truth that we all have the same number of hours in the day.  Those who seem to get more done, have just prioritised differently.  Lamenting that you’re just “too busy” is saying that you’ve prioritised enough things.   

When doing knowledge work, planning for  – and prioritising –the tasks of reviewing, writing, approving, or storing documents and reports is not lost time, it’s doing your job.