062: Prioritizing the Right Things

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When you prioritize yourself, your time and the tasks that are important to you, you are investing in your future self. Today, I’m talking sharing how to prioritize the right things which will allow you to spend more time on what matters most. Through practicing self-compassion and defining what success means to you, you’ll be able to reflect on mistakes and begin to take action to cultivate change.

What’s In This Episode:

Why we caught up in the idea of efficiency, and how to change your mindset towards being effective.
Defining what success means to you. What does it look like to accomplish a goal with a specific endpoint?
Examples of tying important goals and values to your mission so that your priorities are not mismatched.
5 reasons why we have a hard time mismatching our priorities, and solutions for each.
Practicing self-compassion: How to quit sacrificing your own needs and interests just for the sake of being ‘busy.’

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0:00.0	Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on finding success and happiness through the power of productivity.
0:09.4	Each season, Tanya focuses on specific strategies to help you discover your own priorities and purpose.
0:15.2	Season five is all about investing in you.
0:18.4	You can also join Tanya for more interaction and support in her free Facebook group
0:22.3	at Inquilpress.com slash group. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello everyone.
0:31.0	Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquell Press, and this is
0:37.1	episode 62. Today, we are going to be
0:41.0	talking about prioritizing the wrong things. But first, I want to share with you that today's
0:47.2	episode is brought to you by Trunk Club. And later on in the show, I'll be sharing a little bit more
0:52.3	about them. But let's go ahead and dive into today's topic.
0:56.0	I want to talk about prioritizing the wrong things because I think this is something a lot
1:01.5	of people struggle with.
1:02.5	I hear from a lot of you that you understand you need a priority list, but you struggle
1:07.7	with understanding what your priorities are.
1:11.0	And oftentimes, we are prioritizing the wrong things.
1:15.2	We're spending our time on the things that are really urgent and not truly important.
1:20.1	So I want to talk to you first about being efficient versus being effective.
1:25.5	I hear that word efficiency thrown around a lot, and I feel like that's one of
1:29.6	those words that people feel like, ooh, I really want to be efficient. But according to Peter Drucker,
1:35.3	who's often referred to as the founder of the modern management movement, efficiency is doing things right.
1:43.1	Effectiveness is doing the right thing. There's a big difference there.
1:48.1	We get caught up in this idea of efficiency because it sounds like we're getting more done.
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