How To Make Time For The Important Stuff (Rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

One of the things I want to look at while I'm taking my break is what my prioritizes are - it's easy to let yourself just get pulled along with the flow of things and often that means you aren't following your prioritizes. What you end up following is the path of least resistance and overtime you going to find that you just aren't able to make the time for the things that are important to you.

So during this break I thought it would be a great time to revisit this episode on how to set your priorities. I know that we're not going to be able to do everything that we want to right now, but we certainly work on finding at least a little time to work on our most important projects.

Let me ask you, what's the most important thing on your to-do list? What's the thing that if you did it would make you satisfied with what you accomplished today? Sometimes we've got a clear picture of what our most important thing is - usually it's something that's due that day - maybe even something that was due, yesterday. But we can't always rely on urgency to be our guide for prioritization.

If you're struggling to figure out what's the most important thing to do, you're not alone. Picking out the tasks that are going to make the biggest difference is a hard thing to do and something that we're kind of just expected to understand - yet often there's no clear reason why doing task A is better than doing task B.

Today we're going to be exploring how we can determine what those most important tasks are and how we can make them a priority.

Find the show note for this episode at HackingYourADHD.com/priorities

Today's Top Tips
1. To really get the most out of setting your priorities you've first got to understand what your values are
2. You can use the Eisenhower Priority Matrix to separate your tasks into Important and Urgent, Important but not Urgent, Urgent but Not Important and Not Important and Not Urgent
3. Large projects should be broken down into their component parts, once they are broken down look for tasks that are bottle necks or that will make other tasks easier to complete - those should become your priorities

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network. I'm your host,
0:10.0	William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best
0:16.2	practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:26.4	Before we get started with the show, I just wanted to add a few words about this rebroadcast.
0:30.7	One of the things I want to look at while I'm taking my break is what my priorities are.
0:33.9	It's easy to let yourself just get pulled along with the flow of things,
0:36.4	and often that means you aren't following your priorities.
0:37.8	What you end up following is the path of least resistance, and over time you're going to find that you just aren't going
0:42.2	to be able to make space for the things that are most important to you. So during this break,
0:46.6	I thought it would be a great time to revisit this episode on how to set your priorities.
0:50.8	I know that we're not going to be able to do everything that we want to right now, but we can certainly work on finding at least a little time to work on our most important projects.
0:59.0	Alright, thanks for listening, and on with the show.
1:05.0	Let me ask you, what's the most important thing on your to-do list?
1:08.0	What's the thing that if you did it that would make
1:11.2	you satisfied what you've accomplished today? Sometimes we've got a clear picture of what our most
1:15.3	important thing is. Usually it's something due that day, maybe even something that was due
1:19.3	yesterday. But we can't always rely on urgency to be our guide for prioritization. If you're
1:25.1	struggling to figure out what's the most important thing to do,
1:27.8	you're not alone. Picking out the tasks that are going to make the biggest difference is a hard
1:32.3	thing to do and something we're just kind of expected to understand. Yet often there's no
1:37.1	clear reason why doing task A is better than doing task B. So today, we're going to be exploring
1:42.8	how we can determine what those most important tasks are and how we can make them a priority.
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