Time Management - Marc Mancini
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<strong>Time</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
What’s Important?<br />
How do you decide the relative importance of various<br />
tasks? Below are five criteria by which you can weigh tasks<br />
when assigning them priorities:<br />
1. High payoffs. Which tasks will provide the best return on investment<br />
for your time and energy?<br />
2. Essential to your goals. Which tasks are absolutely critical for<br />
meeting personal and professional goals?<br />
3. Essential to your company’s goals. Which tasks will most benefit<br />
your company, providing it with the best return on investment for<br />
employing you?<br />
4. Essential to your boss’s goals. Which tasks does your boss regard<br />
as most important?<br />
5. Can’t be delegated. Which tasks can be done only by you? These<br />
will be high priorities.<br />
The best time to set priorities is the afternoon or evening before—<br />
not the morning.That way, you can sleep on your priority list and then<br />
review it in the morning.You may spot some things you want to change.<br />
does this tell you about the way you think?<br />
• Did the A, B, C importance list produce duties in the<br />
order that you’re most likely to do them? If not, why not?<br />
• Are you putting off an A1 priority because it’s unpleasant?<br />
Might it be better to do it first thing and get it out of<br />
the way?<br />
• Will you be getting to your C priorities soon? If not, why<br />
not? Why were they on your mind? Will they soon<br />
become A’s or B’s?<br />
• Are there any D priorities listed that you would really like<br />
to get done? Do you have a block of time soon that you<br />
could set aside for them?<br />
• Is tomorrow a workday? If so, what personal A’s, B’s, C’s,<br />
and D’s might you have formulated if tomorrow were not<br />
a workday? How many of these would include family,<br />
friends, personal goals, or just plain loafing?<br />
• Conversely, if tomorrow is a day for personal matters,
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