Hey there everybody and welcome to this video on improving prioritization when everything seems important.

This is part of the 52 Skills Everyone Needs series and I'm your host, Dr. Donnellyce Snipes.

The first thing that a lot of people need to do when they start prioritizing is dig themselves out of the hole that they're in.

They've already taken on too much stuff and it's hard to figure out what they're dealing with because they've got so much stuff going on.

What I encourage people to do is create a spreadsheet and it can be columns, it can be four different pieces or five different pieces of paper, whatever you want to do.

But in the first column or on the first sheet, you're going to just write down everything that you need to do, that is quote important the second column or your

second sheet of paper you're going to title crisis do this week these are things that need to be

done this week and some of them will need to be done every week in order to prevent a crisis in order to prevent something

bad from happening.

Included in this are going to be your activities of daily living, like doing laundry.

You don't want to get to a point where you're going around sniffing stuff trying to

figure out if it's clean enough to wear for a third time.

You want to make sure that you've got laundry scheduled in there.

Eating, this is important. You've got to fuel your body.

Sleeping, this is also important.

And so many times when people start feeling overwhelmed and overburdened

sleeping is the first thing that goes and it should be the last thing that goes

when you are well rested your body's cleared out the adenosine which helps you

focus it helps you concentrate it helps you make better decisions it improves

your memory and your retention. It makes you

Oodles more efficient. It also improves your immune system and all kinds of other stuff. It keeps your body factory

tuned up and running as well as it can so sleep is important and

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