44: How To Prioritize

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Prioritization. Focus. Whatever you want to call it. Figuring out where to spend your time can be one of the hardest parts of working at a startup. David shares his approach to prioritization and why it might be time to accept that you will have more than one priority at a time. Two resources we mention on this episode: Stephen Covey's "Big Rocks" http://bit.ly/2fV188c The One Thing (one of our favorite books): http://amzn.to/2eXrB0q Connect With Us: Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. Come hang out with us at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio. Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

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0:00.0	We're on a mission. We have permission. We need to drop some reviews for D.G. And Uncle D.C.
0:08.1	This is why this show is unscripted. I love it.
0:23.6	Let's do it.
0:24.7	What are we going to talk about?
0:26.0	We're going to talk about something that I think about every day.
0:29.8	What is it?
0:30.8	Prioritization.
0:31.5	Damn.
0:33.3	Yeah, so we'll call this how to prioritize.
0:36.2	So I was writing up a couple of quick notes because you sent me a really interesting podcast from Tim Ferriss. And what's this guy's name? Charles. Charles Poliquin. Charles Poliquin. He's a G. He's a G. The uncle, Uncle Charlie. So anyway, I just wanted to see like how big of a deal prioritization is. He's like in his 50s. Look at his guns, man. Those guns are, he's shredded? Okay. He shredded. So I want to see like, are we the only people that are thinking about prioritization all the time? So I looked it up. There's 26 million search results for how to prioritize. Damn. So this is, everybody's thinking about this all the time.
1:11.6	Way too many.
1:12.8	So I want to start off like you, so first of all, you have a little framework for how
1:17.6	you prioritize stuff, right?
1:19.8	Yeah.
1:20.5	What, what's, give us that rundown again.
1:22.3	It's basically, it's basically this concept from Stephen Covey or aka also in the book The One Thing,
1:30.2	one of our favorite books here at Drift.
1:31.4	We give it out to everyone.
1:32.9	And the way that I prioritize things is that I try to focus on big rocks, a single big rock
1:38.5	to focus on each day.
1:40.7	And all I need to get done in that day is that one big rock.
1:45.5	And after that big rock is done, then I can fill in the rest of the time with small rocks or not.
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