The way you spend your time is a result of how you see your time and the way you really see your priorities. Stephen Covey
Wow, what a great thought from 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. We all have a ton of things to get done. Most of us have an extensive task list that we work on everyday. We show up early, bust out the list and start getting things done and checking those boxes but are we really making progress?
Have we decided what our gifts, abilities and expertise are and do we try to work on the things we can impact the most to move our situation, job or company forward? If you look at the task you are completing you will see what is really important to you. When you look down your task list are those things really the most important things you need to work on this morning? Today? This week?
Homework: take an hour this week and examine you expertise, gifts and talents and what you bring to the table to your job, family, company, department, etc. Next, take a look at your task list or all your task list and make a list of the things only you can do or that you can make the biggest impact on. OK, now let’s make that your task list and let’s get the most important things done, not just going through the motions of getting a lot of less important things done! Good Luck!