Holidays and the coming new year are a time of family, events, reflection, and new beginnings. If your life is anything like mine, it was busy before the extra holiday parties, dinners, and other events were added in. This year, I’m using this season as a practice session on prioritizing. The most important thing in life is knowing what the most important things in life are, and prioritizing them accordingly. Sadly, most of us spend too much time on urgent things and not enough time on important things.
There is countless advice on time management, delegation, and planning. How can I use this advice to prioritize my personal holiday plans?! I cannot possibly do it all, right? There are five steps that I follow to both plan and prioritize my days at work.
1- Plan Beforehand
2- Determine what is important
3- Determine what is urgent (just because something is urgent, doesn’t mean it’s important)
4- When checking tasks off- aim for quality over quantity
5- Just do it- stop procrastinating
For holiday plans, I’d add one additional step, determine what brings you joy. That’s what this season is all about, right?
Very well said! A joyous season. And urgency doesn’t equal importance.