How To Make Time For The Important Stuff

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Let me ask you, what's the most important thing on your to-do list? What 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 we've got to do 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.

As we are approaching the end of the year I've been thinking about what I want to do next year and what things are going to make the most difference in my life. So today I'm going to be exploring how we can determine what those most important tasks are and how we can make them a priority.

Check out the full show notes and episode transcript at: HackingYourADHD.com/Priorities

This Episode’s Top Tips

To really get the most out of setting your priorities you've first got to understand what your values are
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
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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:09.8	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:13.7	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, strategies, and best practices that will help you work
0:19.3	with your ADHD brain.
0:21.9	Let me ask you, what's the most important thing on your to-do list?
0:25.8	What's the thing that if you did it would make you satisfied with what you accomplished today?
0:31.1	Sometimes we've got a clear picture of what our most important thing is.
0:35.0	Usually, it's something that's due that day, maybe even something
0:38.3	that was due yesterday. But we can't always rely on urgency to be our guide for prioritization.
0:45.3	If you're struggling to figure out what's the most important thing to do, you're not alone.
0:50.3	Picking out the tasks that are going to make the biggest difference is a hard thing to do,
0:55.0	and something we're just kind of expected to understand.
0:57.0	Yet often, there's no clear reason why doing task A is better than doing task B.
1:03.0	As we are approaching the end of the year, I've been thinking about what I want to do next year,
1:08.0	and what things are going to make the most difference in my life.
1:11.5	So today, I'm going to be exploring how we can determine what those most important tasks are
1:16.7	and how we can make them a priority. If you want to follow along with today's show on our show
1:22.1	notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash priorities. Let's start off by asking what makes something
1:38.7	a priority. We can get on some common footing here by defining a priority as a concern or desire that comes
1:45.3	before all others. It was interesting that while researching this episode, I didn't find a lot of
1:50.0	stuff talking about what makes a priority a priority. It's just assumed that we already know
1:56.1	why what we're doing is important, and I don't think that's always true.
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