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🗓️ 8 August 2022
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In this episode, we look at the must, should, want system for organizing and prioritizing tasks.
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0:00.0 | There is a productivity system out there that forces you to prioritize your tasks better |
0:06.7 | in order to help you get more done. |
0:09.9 | And I'm going to tell you all about it. This priority system that I'm talking about is called must should want. |
0:20.0 | And you might have heard of it. The idea is pretty |
0:25.5 | straightforward. As you wake up in the day you first thing sort of create a list |
0:31.1 | of the things you need to do for that day, |
0:33.7 | and then you go through and you categorize them |
0:36.2 | into must, should, and want. |
0:38.6 | And the reason that this works is because it forces you |
0:41.5 | to think about where each task fits in your day and |
0:46.5 | whether or not it can be pushed. One of the big reasons why we struggle to be |
0:51.2 | productive and why we struggle to get things done each day |
0:54.5 | is simply because we spend time on tasks that really aren't that important. |
0:59.5 | We focus our time on things that feel urgent but aren't actually important to get done in that moment. |
1:06.4 | Things that are maybe timely but don't need to be done right now. |
1:12.0 | And that time and energy spent there, as well as the time and energy |
1:15.6 | spent switching to something else, drives us crazy. It makes it so challenging to stay focused |
1:22.2 | and to make things work as we switch from task to |
1:25.4 | task, not to mention, and you've probably experienced this yourself, as you go through the |
1:30.8 | rest of your day, you start to realize time is flying by. All of those little 5, 10, 15, 20 minute |
1:38.4 | tasks that you've spent your energy and time on throughout the day, they up quickly they don't feel like it but they |
1:44.8 | add up very quickly and so the purpose of this system is to help you organize prior to the day starting |
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