3508: How to Prioritize by Steve Pavlina on Productivity

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3508: Steve Pavlina introduces the CARVER method, a military-inspired framework that evaluates tasks based on six key factors: Criticality, Accessibility, Return, Vulnerability, Effect, and Recognizability. By assigning numerical values to each factor, you can create a clear prioritization system, ensuring that your time and energy are spent on the most impactful projects. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/05/how-to-prioritize/ Quotes to ponder: "By using a simple system like CARVER, you’ll know which projects are important enough to deserve your attention and which are, relatively speaking, a waste of your time and energy." "The point of CARVER is to select a reasonably intelligent project and then get into action. Don’t lose yourself in hours of analysis paralysis." "You want to make the greatest amount of progress towards your goals with the least amount of effort." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	This is Optimal Living Daily. How to Prioritize by Steve Pavlina of stevepavlina.com.
0:37.5	And I'm Justin Mollick, your personal narrator reading to you every day of the year.
0:42.0	And we're going to get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:49.1	How to Prioritize by Steve Pavlina of stevepavina.com.
0:55.0	Virtually, every time management system teaches that you must prioritize your projects
1:00.2	to make sure you're working on what's truly important instead of getting caught up in
1:04.6	minor things. However, few systems explain precisely how to do this. How do you decide which task is really the most important
1:13.8	at any given time? Is it the one that's most urgent, the one that will earn you the most money,
1:19.9	the one that will produce the greatest long-term happiness, the one that will please your boss the
1:25.0	most? If you don't use an intelligent method of prioritization,
1:29.2	you'll lack consistency and bounce from one task to another with no rhyme or reason. In this article,
1:35.8	I'll share with you a simple and effective prioritization method adapted from the military.
1:42.3	From a pure military, i.e. non-political standpoint, the goal of any engagement is to
1:48.4	achieve victory by inflicting the greatest damage on your enemy with the least amount of
1:53.1	resources. When you say that this is the essence of personal time management as well,
1:58.4	you want to make the greatest amount of progress towards your goals with the
2:02.5	least amount of effort. Objective. For prioritization to have any meaning, it's imperative that you
2:09.5	have a clear objective. For the military, your overall objective may be to achieve a decisive victory.
2:16.7	Your personal objective may be a set of goals,
2:20.1	your mission statement, or purpose, or even a state of being. The role of prioritization then
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