Organizing Priorities

One of the books I read recently suggested a best practice for a businesses to have a top 5 list and a top 1 of 5 item that is the most important of that list.  Limiting it to 5 makes things seem attainable and having one singled out as the top priority adds just enough focus that you should know what you should be acting on at any time.

What you put on the list should be determined by your longer term goals, and each top 5 item should be a step in the right direction to get there.

I’ve started to do this over the last 2 weeks and the results so far have been quite good.

My office has gotten completely re-organized and everything filed, or purged. The gutters cleaned. garden raked and turned over.  I have written a ton of things over the last few weeks, and started the process of consolidating my mess of banking accounts.

The technique seems to work better than making a long TODO list that becomes a bit too intimidating and ultimately fails.