#144 - Free to Focus (Chp 8 - Designate: Prioritize Your Tasks)

You need to systematically decide what deserves your attention now, what deserves your attention later, and what doesn’t deserve your attention at all.

How to do a weekly review:

1. List Your Biggest Wins
2. Review the Prior Week
3. Review Your Lists and Notes
4. Check Goals, Projects, Events, Meetings, and Deadlines
5. Designate Your Weekly Big 3 Things to Accomplish
6. Plan Your Rejuvenation

Decide what goes on your Weekly Big 3 using The Eisenhower Matrix.

Spend 95% of your time on Quadrant 1 and 2 activities. Clear Quadrant 3 tasks quickly (delegate what you can) and eliminate all Quadrant 4 tasks.

How to design your day:

• Plan days solely focused on tasks and refuse any meeting requests for that day
• Shoot for three, and only three, key tasks each day (your Daily Big 3). Let your Weekly Big 3 inform your Daily Big 3
• Schedule time to do your Daily Big 3 on your calendar