Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast and this episode is part of our Skills Sprint series.

We've recorded 20 episodes. Each of them are less than seven minutes long and they're designed to help you build some career development momentum.

So in every episode we're going to talk about a squiggly skill, share an idea for action from each of us,

and then we'll give you a go-to guru and a podcast episode so that you can learn a bit more.

And we really want you to turn this skill sprint into your learning streak.

So for everybody who completes the entire sprint, that's 20 days, we are going to offer you a free five skills to succeed in a squiggly career virtual workshop

with Sarah and me in September. All you've got to do is listen and do a bit of learning and then

post about your progress on social and taggers. We're at Amazing If in your post and then we will

be in touch. So in this skill sprint, we're talking about prioritisation, which I don't think

there's anybody who gets

this right all of the time. It's actually, please let us know what your secret formula is,

because we all feel like we are juggling lots of different work and priorities in our squiggly

careers. And I think often I hear people describing feeling like they're maybe stuck in a tunnel of troubleshooting or

firefighting or sometimes doing other people's work. So, you know, when you sort of start, I always

imagine this, it's like, you start on a Monday and you're like, I've got all of this clarity. And I've

really thought about what I need to do in what order and I feel really in control.

And like, this is how my week is going to work.

And then by like 11am, you know, the emails have started coming in.

The team messages have started.

And sort of everything goes out of the window.

So I think we often start with best intentions.

And we've all come across some of those sort of prioritisation tools or techniques.

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