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I triage all my priorities....

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I triage all my priorities....

I triage all my priorities. I think of them as patients in a waiting room. Where are the multiple gun shot wound victims and where are the sniffling colds? The gun shot wounds go first with the idea that the sniffling colds will turn into black plague if I don’t deal with them sooner rather than later.

What determines they are a gsws are the projects I have going (home and work). Some days my kid’s hospital visit is takes priority over anything I get paid for. This makes my priority system pretty flexible, which is the main reason I steered away from Covey and went the GTD route.

Gotta get back to it before coughing grandpa turns into a walking time bomb.

Vox Pop: What we talk about when we talk about "priority" By: Merlin Mann (40 replies) February 12, 2007 - 4:36am
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