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Prioritising is an important skill but it is one which is often neglected. There are endless courses and books on time management but precious few (that I've come across) on prioritising.
The first step in how prioritising is to put your feelings aside. How a task makes you feel, whether you want to do it or not ... those kind of things must be ignored. Many people cannot manage this step.
The second step, obviously, is to make a list of the tasks.
Having done that, all the tasks must be categorised using a simple system. Tasks may be
- Easy / middling / difficult or time consuming
- Urgent / soon / when there is time
- Important / useful / unimportant
(To help you decide on the importance of a task, think about the consequences if it is done or not done. An important task has significant consequences.)
Do not spend much time or effort on categorising - it doesn't need to be perfect, you're just trying to identify the tasks which are most urgent and / or most important.
Tasks which are easy, urgent and important are given the highest priority and are completed first, while difficult, non urgent & useful tasks are done last. Everything else goes in the middle except tasks which are unimportant: they should not be done at all.
Now you can return to your feelings. From the three or four highest priority task, choose the one you fear most and do that first.
A quick re-prioritisation should occur at frequent intervals, and whenever an event occurs such as new information or a task being completed. Things change, and there's no point in doing a task which was urgent yesterday but now doesn't matter.
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do my self smoothly deal to confusion the problom after that reduce the probloms and stres level issues
Scheduling is the process by which you plan how you'll use your time. Doing it well can maximize your effectiveness and reduce your stress levels.
