Triage – Important Stuff First

In my list of disciplines I called this triage.  Triage is actually  prioritizing the patient with the greatest need based on the severity of their condition.   For us in my list of disciplines it means concentrating on the activities each days with the highest priority or value.  You may have heard the expression

“don’t sweat the small stuff”. 

 We can spend way too much time worrying about things that are really insignificant in the whole scheme of your day.  Not just worrying but doing things that are not that important that could be eliminated or outsourced.    

Your ability to work on the most important tasks will greatly improve how much you accomplish each day, each week, each year and leave more time for you to spend doing the things that are truly important in your life.   This is a big challenge for me because I like to try so many things, but sometimes I spend too much time doing things that I don’t really enjoy doing that much,  and are not really being a big benefit to me.  So why don’t I just stop doing those things.  I can’t seem to stop.  JUST SAY NO!!!  

There are only 24 hours in a day.  You have to make time for the important stuff.  You have to choose to do THIS instead of  THAT.   I choose to blog instead of watch TV.  Just for the heck of it total up the amount of time you spend watching TV.  One hour in the morning watching the news, turn the TV on at 6pm and turn it off at 10pm when you head to bed.  Okay that’s five hours.  How much could you get done if  you had an extra five hours each day.   See how much time you spend each day on Facebook.  Could that time be put to better use. Okay I’m stepping on toes….my toes.   Time is precious.  Use it wisely.

So this triage thing will require some thought and for me this includes making a list.  Again lots of these diciplines overlap because this is also a part of  the Planning and Organizing thing which I will touch on tomorrow.