You Have No Performance Issues, You Have a Priority Issue
You worked 70 hours a week, you are constantly on the road, but you still feel that you are falling behind in your work. The problem may not be that you are not working hard enough, but that you need to change your priorities.
As Chris Kyle, creator of the Strikethru system, explains , this feeling of constant lag more often comes from confusing priorities and an inadequate productivity system, rather than because you don’t have enough time. If you take on too much or don’t devote enough time to important things, you’re less likely to get them done when they should:
Most people think prioritizing is putting things in order of importance. They are not wrong. But things start to get complicated when they try to rank their ever-expanding to-do list. It’s almost impossible.
But what if you’ve broken your list down into smaller, more specific lists. For example, a list of your most recent side project, a list of your goals for this year, and a to-do list. Then you went through your lists and selected the tasks that you liked. Finally, you looked at these tasks from the shortlist and ranked them so you know in which order to attack them the next day.
A moderate amount of time prioritizing what you need to do can save you a lot of headaches in the long run when you find your schedule getting too chaotic. As a bonus, if you look at your list of priorities for the day and see that something is taking too much of your time without enough benefit, you know you need to cut back.