006: The Power of Priorities
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Let's rethink the to-do list. Today's episode is about finding a method to prioritize your daily tasks to help you focus on the tasks that are truly important to you and your goals. I'll be sharing my method to help sort your daily tasks and helping you take real steps toward achieving your goals by working on your priorities.
What's In This Episode:
- Learn the definition of overwhelm and how to tackle it.
- Understand the two questions you can ask to help you focus on priorities.
- How a technique developed in WWI can apply to our daily lives.
- Discover how the Eisenhower Matrix can streamline your days.
- Understand the difference between urgent and important tasks
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. Join Tanya Dalton as she helps you discover your passions and priorities through the power of productivity. |
| 0:08.2 | Tanya has transformed her personal productivity mission into Inkwell Press, a seven-figure business that has already changed the lives of thousands of fiercely loyal fans. |
| 0:18.2 | To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply |
| 0:22.0 | register at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now, here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, |
| 0:28.7 | hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode |
| 0:34.8 | six. Today, we are going to be talking about focusing in on our priorities. |
| 0:41.0 | Now over the course of the last few episodes, we have set our goals, we've designed our mission |
| 0:46.7 | statement, and even a family mission statement. So now it's really important to use that |
| 0:52.0 | to find and act upon our priorities. |
| 0:55.7 | And the problem is it can be really hard to know what your priorities are, both the long |
| 1:01.0 | term and even the short term priorities when we live such hectic lives. |
| 1:06.2 | There's so much that needs to get done each and every day and we don't want to get into |
| 1:10.5 | that trap of feeling |
| 1:11.6 | busy when really we're just procrastinating on our priorities so you can ask yourself two questions |
| 1:18.6 | question one what can i and only i do that if done well will really make a difference in question, what's the most valuable use of my time right now? |
| 1:31.3 | So that seems pretty easy, right? Just two questions? |
| 1:34.3 | They're really hard to answer, right? |
| 1:37.3 | So let's take a step back and look at a real-world example. |
| 1:41.3 | We're going to go through a little bit of an exercise and talk about how |
| 1:45.8 | you really can answer these questions. So in thinking about people who are busy, let's go back |
| 1:52.5 | to World War I, to the French Army, who were, they were looking for a way to save as many |
| 1:58.5 | lives as possible during the war. Their dressing stations behind the lines were swamped with wounded soldiers, |
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