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Maximize Your Time with Better Priorities
Episode Summary
We explore how to prioritize all the competing demands on your time to maximize your effectiveness and happiness.
Episode Notes
We explore how to prioritize all the competing demands on your time to maximize your effectiveness and happiness.
Show Notes
- 2:50— We discuss how prioritization touches all different aspects of one’s life — personal, career, health, etc.
- 7:08— Ian shares his experience years ago when he discovered the need a framework for prioritization when he felt overwhelmed with all the things he needed to do.
- 11:42— March discusses how moving from Ireland to the US and then having children changed his priorities and the way he prioritizes his time and energy.
- 16:44— Darren frames his experience with prioritization in terms of practicing delayed gratification.
- 18:59— March describes the triage method that firefighters and first responders use to prioritize.
- 22:30— Ian explains the Eisenhower decision matrix.
- 27:46— We discuss the connection between prioritization and delegating some tasks to others or outsourcing some tasks.
- 35:48— March discusses the importance of having a rhythm and routine in your planning.
- 37:13— Ian explains that a key aspect of the Eisenhower matrix is having a single list including all of your personal and work related tasks. Darren and March share their personal methods for combining their personal and work priorities.
- 43:23— March shares a piece of wisdom from Mark Twain about doing the most distasteful task in your day first.
- 45:14— Ian shares a key piece of wisdom about prioritizing the one thing that will give you the most sense of satisfaction once you have accomplished it.
- 46:09— Darren shares his opinion that the #1 most important life skill is the ability to exercise delayed gratification.
- 49:16— Darren discusses the challenge of balancing the needs of others you care about and one’s own needs.
- 52:25— Ian describes the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) method employed by Google and other large firms of aligning goals and priorities across the company.
- 59:12— Darren describes the RICE Method for prioritizing business decisions.
- 1:03:52— March explains the ABCDE Method for prioritizing all the tasks in a very long list.
- 1:06:25— Darren admits to being (very) human in his planning rigor and commits to re-adopting the practice of planning his days on the night before.
- 1:07:33— March shares a tip about focusing on the “mean time between recovery” instead of the “mean time between failure.”
- 1:10:20— March is going to document the change in his daily routine when he moves back to Ireland later this summer.
- 1:13:13— Ian is committing to applying the Eisenhower matrix to his Productivity Planner routine.
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