Schedule Your Top 3 Priorities

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Here’s a smart tip for doubling or tripling your daily productivity — without working longer hours. This smart advice works for business professionals in lots of different industries: sales, manufacturing, office work, education, health care, and politics.

Every day, schedule your top 3 priorities with yourself — just as if they were appointments with you.

If you work in a very hectic place, you might think that’s impossible to do. It’s not, because if your boss or top customer called you in the morning and said, “I need to talk with you about something big. Let’s talk this afternoon at 2.” You and I both know you’d make the time.

Most people in business do not even get their number one priority for the day accomplished, much less their top 3. When you consistently do your top 3 priorities five days a week, 52 weeks a year, year after year, you are miles ahead of the pack. You will be recognized as a master of your profession. While most people have themselves spread thin like flood water trying to cover everything, you are like the Colorado River steadily pushing away rock to create the Grand Canyon.

When you schedule your top 3 priorities, are you guaranteed to get them done? No. But it’ll be a lot easier to say “Not now” to lessor things that want to pull you off course. And over time, your laser approach will bring you more positive results than a flashlight approach ever can.

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